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  1. I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whol…
  2. I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his…
  3. Every man alive in the world is a beggar of one sort or another, every last one of them, great and small. The priest begs God for grace, an…
  4. When I was fifteen and had quit school forever, I went to work in a vineyard near Sanger with a number of Mexicans, one of whom was only a …
  5. The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer…
  6. Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions,…
  7. I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The national…
  8. The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?

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