"The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap."

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Source : Octave Mirbeau (1900). “A Chambermaid's Diary”

Octave Mirbeau

#Joy Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Rich Quotes

“I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.”
“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.”
“Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.”
“I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.”
“Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.”

Source : "Insight and Responsibility".
“I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.”
“We can take that as a notion that we don't know exactly what [Trump] is going to do, but we can't afford to take a position of waiting around to see.”
“Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.”

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