A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But she was rich, and he was poor,
And so it might not be.
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"The Way of the World".John Godfrey Saxe
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A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But he was high and she was low,
And so it might not be.John Godfrey Saxe
A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But their sires disputed about the Mass,
And so it might not be.John Godfrey Saxe
In the final analysis, the rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. The agony of the poor diminishes the rich, and the salvation of the poor enlarges the rich. We are inevitably our brothers' keeper because of the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
Samuel Johnson
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Saxe, John Godfrey
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