Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor. (Sherman Alexie)

Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Sherman Alexie

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