“ No man has been at greater straits than I, and has borne more pinching poverty and hardship ”
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844). copy citation
| Author | William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| Source | The Luck of Barry Lyndon |
| Topic | hardship poverty |
| Date | 1844 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4558/pg4558-images.html |
Context
“drank a tankard of small beer and a toast to my breakfast; and exchanged the first of my gold pieces to settle the bill, not forgetting to pay all the servants liberally, and as a gentleman should. I began so the first day of my life, and so have continued. No man has been at greater straits than I, and has borne more pinching poverty and hardship; but nobody can say of me that, if I had a guinea, I was not free-handed with it, and did not spend it as well as a lord could do.
I had no doubts of the future: thinking that a man of my person, parts, and courage, could make his way anywhere.”
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