"If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting."

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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

— Jules Feiffer