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Or, as Groucho Marx once quipped . . . "Look at me! I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty!" And also . . . "Last year I didn't even have a nickel in my pocket! Now I've got a nickel in my pocket!" 
posted by
JimmyA
on August 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM
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Pat
Well I think he may have been a tad 'tetched' about this time in life. All I know is a life of poverty appears to be a hard one. My Mama always said "I may be broke but I have never been poor in my life" I think a lot of it is in the attitude. I have had some very lean years, very lean.
posted by
Justi
on August 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM
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Mark Twain himself was rich. He owned a publishing house. However, he knew po' folk as a boy on the Mississippi love. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on August 23, 2012 at 12:38 PM
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PatB
Well I'm most familiar with the poverty than the corner lot.LOL
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 23, 2012 at 10:22 AM
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Well sadly I like riches Pat having tried both on occasions I go for the easy life and I think he was telling porkies.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 23, 2012 at 8:10 AM
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Iy is too late for me to want to be rich and taps is right. One pays double
rates on a corner lot.
posted by
Kabu
on August 23, 2012 at 8:08 AM
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I really like your old poem that you posted last. I'm having to do some thinking about Master Mark Twain's quote here. I'm trying to decide what is the dividing line between honest poverty and inhonest poverty. Corner lots are nice except for the fact that one has to pay double taxes I've always heard.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 23, 2012 at 7:10 AM
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