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1. “My father used to warn me that gambling would land me in jail or the poorhouse
2. have to go to the poorhouse," she ended
3. "To the poorhouse! how dreadful! And the children, too?" and Miss
4. "But the poorhouse!" she said again
5. that day should come was her special horror--the poorhouse
6. "Or to the poorhouse, more likely," said another
7. "I've heard her shudder over the poorhouse
8. candle! and you won't have to go to the poorhouse!"
9. doubt, be at this moment a shivering pauper in that terrible poorhouse,
10. "This is al that stands between me and the poorhouse," Wil exclaimed, without
11. "A few meals here and a man could eat himself into the poorhouse
12. Jamie wondered what it would take to put Salomon van der Merwe in the poorhouse
13. Hugo, together with his mother and brother and sister, then went to a poorhouse,
14. lived in a poorhouse, together with Rose
15. How can an individual investor determine what information has the potential to make them the next Warren Buffett and what information will land them in the poorhouse? Because some investors interpret the information as bullish and others as bearish, the amount of buying and selling has picked up, leading to more volatility
16. He supported almost singlehanded a poorhouse the order had founded in Petersburg
17. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse
18. And here this man, the cruel slaveholder of thousands of men, building for those who have been crippled while working for him little houses with little gardens five feet square, and a savings-bank, and a poorhouse, and a hospital, is fully convinced that in this way he has more than paid for all those physically and mentally ruined lives of men, for which he is responsible, and quietly continues his activity, of which he is proud
19. And so we see this man, the harsh slave-driver of thousands of men, building almshouses with little gardens two yards square for the workmen broken down in toiling for him, and a bank, and a poorhouse, and a hospital—fully persuaded that he has amply expiated in this way for all the human lives morally and physically ruined by him—and calmly going on with his business, taking pride in it