#beggar

Is an artist much more than a beggar? ↗

— Clara Schumann

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He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home. ↗

— Stijn Streuvels

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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger. ↗

— Giovanni Guareschi

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Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

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If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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