Quotation by M. E. W. Sherwood

The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!
M. E. W. Sherwood
M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903), U.S. socialite, traveller, and author. An Epistle to Posterity, ch. 14 (1897).

Sherwood, a born-rich member of New York City "society," seldom expressed such a romantic view of the poor, though she was always condescendingly benign toward them.
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