And it is quite as fair to observe that ignorance and slovenliness and the tradition itself are the inevitable products of just one thing: poverty.
It came with never having had much, she knew, the inability to let go of things, even things that were useless.
To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
Poverty caused their carelessness; their carelessness brings them deeper poverty.
But, you see, a body never knows what traits poverty might bring out in 'em. It makes a woman grasping to see her children want for things.
The family trees of the poor don't grow to any height.