“Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty – the shame of being thought poor – it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.”

“Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty – the shame of being thought poor – it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.”

— William Cobbett