"On Being Hard Up".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
“It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.”
Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat
res angusta domi.
III, line 164.
Variant translation: Slow rises Worth, by Poverty deprest.
As translated by Samuel Johnson
Satires, Satire III
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Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat res angusta domi.
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