George Orwell. Down and out in Paris and London (№ 238289)

The mistake of thinking that dismissed only grieving the loss of earnings; no, a simple unlearned man, whose bones congenital habit of work, work is needed even more than money. People with more education are able to tolerate involuntary idleness, one of the worst evils of poverty, but like Paddy who can't occupy themselves without work suffer, like dogs on a leash. And so there is nothing to shed tears over those who "from height thrown to the bottom of life." Those who on this day from birth, who have a brain not filled and unarmed against poverty - they are really worthy of pity.