| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47934 |
| QUOTATION: | No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (18701916), Scottish author. Lady Caroline, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 7 (1912). |
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