It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth. (Faina Ranevskaya)

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

Faina Ranevskaya

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