“Better a thrifty son-in-law and poor, than a glutton who is rich.”
Mateo Alemán book Guzmán de Alfarache
Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. X.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
“Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
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Charles II of England (1630–1685) King of England, Ireland and Scotland
On his deathbed, asking that his favourite mistress, Nell Gwynne, be looked after, as quoted in History of My Own Time (1734), by Gilbert Burnet, Vol.II, Bk.iii, Ch. 17
Aravind Adiga book The White Tiger
The Sixth Night.
The White Tiger (2008)
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Amas d'épithètes, mauvaises louanges: ce sont les faits qui louent, et la manière de les raconter.
Aphorism 13
Les Caractères (1688), Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit
“Man is God's image; but a poor man is
Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
Robert Hunter (author) (1874–1942) American sociologist, author, golf course architect
also see Charles Dickens, Bleak House
p. 60
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Context: Thrift and foresight are among the chief teachings of all missionaries to the poor and the present day world has little sympathy for any parent—whether a Harold Skimpole, a Mrs. Jellyby, a Jean Jacques Rousseau, or a Leo Tolstoy—who for any cause whatsoever feels that he should give no thought for the morrow and that his children may live like the fowls of the air.