Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Poverty is unnecessary.
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
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