However mean your life is,
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; do not shun it and
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. It is not so bad as you are. It
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when you are richest. The fault-finder will
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Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some
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hours, even in a poor-house. The
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is reflected from the windows of the alms-house
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from the rich man"s abode; the snow melts before its door
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I do not see but
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may live as contentedly there, and have
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, as in a palace. The town"s poor seem to me often to live the
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of any. May be they are
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to receive
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.
Most think that they are above
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by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by
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Which should be more disreputable
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like a garden herb, like a sage. Do not
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to get new things, whether clothes or friends,
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, return to them. Things do not change;
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Sell your clothes and
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