Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from 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.
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.
Poverty is unnecessary.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I'm writing about, and on the other hand, they're saying their lives are a world away.
Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.