'Riches are a curse; and poverty a blessing.

For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appal.

What harm can poverty inflict on a man who despises such excesses?

Heart-rending was the wail of the poor little ones from whom the war had taken their fathers, and poverty their motherstorn from their home, the refuge of their orphaned childhood, to be driven like a flock of bleating lambs out into the desert wilderness of life.

Heart-rending was the wail of the poor little ones from whom the war had taken their fathers, and poverty their motherstorn from their home, the refuge of their orphaned childhood, to be driven like a flock of bleating lambs out into the desert wilderness of life.

Some men think poverty such a shame that they would rather be judged absolutely mean than confess it.