A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
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Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to defin
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