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1  He has a right to if he likes, poor lad.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
2  Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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3  So cheer up, Captain; and buy a flower off a poor girl.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
4  All I propose is that we should be kind to this poor girl.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
5  And if he's weak and poor and wants me, may be he'd make me happier than my betters that bully me and don't want me.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
6  I should indeed be honored by your condescension, ma'am; and my poor old woman would take it as a tremenjous compliment.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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7  When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me off, and got shut of me and got me shut of him as quick as he could.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
8  But I, as one of the undeserving poor, have nothing between me and the pauper's uniform but this here blasted three thousand a year that shoves me into the middle class.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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9  If I was one of the deserving poor, and had put by a bit, I could chuck it; but then why should I, acause the deserving poor might as well be millionaires for all the happiness they ever has.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V