Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
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 is unnecessary.
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.