"Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world."

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Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.355

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#Poverty Quotes #World Quotes #Contempt Quotes

“I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart or give, so I think my dream readers would be people who just use the book as an excuse to get into their own cycle of thoughts. The book is just like a map. It's just a jotting-down of things that you can interpret in your own ways.”
“Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.”
“It's the little things that count, hundreds of them.”
“Dirt is matter in the wrong place.”
“The lies are in different places.”
“My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.”
“Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1913). “Poems by Jean Ingelow”
“Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.”

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