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.
一本好书是能改变你的书,哪怕只是一点点。
I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space.