#beggar

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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More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

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The beggar wears all colors fearing none. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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