Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor. - Sherman Alexie

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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor. - Jean de la Bruyere quotes