Anzia Yezierska - Red ribbon on a white horse (1950)

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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse

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If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.

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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

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Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

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Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

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The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

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Poverty becomes a Jew like a red ribbon on a white horse.

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