You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

People without much money don’t work hard enough and are irresponsible.

Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight—the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards. He wondered if that were true. They acted that way sometimes.