Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.
Poverty is unnecessary.
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
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