“For the poor children who are hungry. For the rich children who are sad.”
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“The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.”
Saadi as translated in The Gulistān : Or, Rose-garden, of Shek̲h̲ Muslihu'd-dīn Sādī of Shīrāz as translated by Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1880), p. 203.
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