Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good deal, but he cannot afford a doctor ("Everything is so dear"). Then how can he afford a charity? "Oh," he explained, "that's different. I'm an old bachelor and I don't have any family, so why shouldn't I help the poor? . . . Every night I put aside whatever change I have in my pockets and save it up and when Christmas comes I take it and give it to charity. Why, it's the least...
...stone, glowered at the people, and finally died, still chained. Years later, other white sea monkeys came to Jogjakarta and read what the first one had carved on the rock. In Latin he had written : "Laugh at your own stupidity, but do not laugh at the misfortunes of a poor man." In French, Italian and Dutch he had repeated (soon after Copernicus and before Galileo) a sentence so as to form a circle: "So moves the world...
...pass through British customs. They pay a 50?-a-gallon tariff on the French wine in their demijohns, but none on the high-duty Martinique rum hidden in their baskets. Ashore, they barter or sell their wine and rum, then go shopping. St. Lucia has the foodstuffs that bone-poor Martinique has had to do without...
...stay for a year. He organized Saturday sports-soccer, football, baseball. Other boys began coming, sons of gardeners, or "river rats" who fish for a living. The children brought their parents, helped build the congregation up to its present 210, with a healthier cross section of rich and poor...
...Christians would join the Wise Men we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised and aid the neighbor in his need. Do not boast that you have built churches and endowed masses. God will say: 'What to me are your churches and masses? . . . Who told you to build churches? I have set before you spiritual temples...