The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society.

-- Nathan Rosenberg 内森·罗森伯格

认为贫穷在富裕社会中是道德上不能容忍的看法，必须等待富裕社会的出现。

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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

如果社会如此严格地对待其成员中那些在机遇所创造的分配或财富方面最缺乏天赋、因而最值得纵容的人，这(难道不是)令人愤慨的吗?

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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

有些人拥有丰富和快乐的品质，他们把这种品质传达给他们接触到的每一件事。首先是身体素质;那么这就是精神的一种品质。

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

孤独和被遗弃的感觉是最可怕的贫穷。

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