Anonymous
2 months ago
“Honored sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying.[...]But beggary, honored sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible[...]”
-Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment