“ Poverty has its whims and shows of taste, as wealth has. ”
Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | Barnaby Rudge |
| Topic | wealth poverty |
| Date | 1841 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/917/917-h/917-h.htm |
Context
“(if the houses had not done so, sufficiently, of themselves) how very poor the people were who lived in the crazy huts adjacent, and how foolhardy it might prove for one who carried money, or wore decent clothes, to walk that way alone, unless by daylight.
Poverty has its whims and shows of taste, as wealth has. Some of these cabins were turreted, some had false windows painted on their rotten walls; one had a mimic clock, upon a crazy tower of four feet high, which screened the chimney; each in its little patch of ground had a rude seat or arbour.”
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