成功这个词在字典里才排在努力前面。
The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
The novel is a way of thinking about the world, not just a way of describing it.