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“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.”

Men Poverty Ruined Hollow Pretense Pretension

Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

“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.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poor Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretence

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.”

Feels Firsts Made Remember Poverty Office Checks Ruined Nobility

Author:Ricky Gervais

“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.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretense Pretension

Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book