Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

“Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspec…”

“Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his b…”

“When in doubt, go to the library.”

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings woul…”