Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
If I should tell you,I still read the fairy tale,and they are my favorite books。
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.