Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and punishment (№ 22556)

Poverty is not a Vice, it's the truth. I know that drunkenness is not a virtue, and it is even more so. But poverty, sir, poverty - Vice-s. In poverty, you still retain your innate nobility of feelings, in poverty as ever and no one. For poverty not even a stick thrown out, and broom sweep from the company of men to the was insulting; and justly, because in poverty I'm the first he is ready to offend you. And here drinking!