Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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