The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start, and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind.
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
That’s the difference between the rich and the poor. The poor walk; the rich ride in carriages.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be “attracted.”
Poverty is spiritual halitosis.
Poverty is not a vice, that’s a true saying.[Бедность не порок, это истина.]
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
Poor people are subject to fancies – this is a provision of nature.[Бедные люди капризны, – это уж так от природы устроено.]
Poor man. Poor mankind.
