Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
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Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
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It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
George OrwellTags: poverty hunger george-orwell down-and-out-in-paris-and-london
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.
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The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
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