Respectability is a much-mocked quality, and no doubt it has its drawbacks: but it's opposite, a kind of bohemian anarchy without culture or intellect to redeem it, has no advantages. Besides, the respectability of poor people is moving to behold, constituting as it does a constructive attempt to overcome the hardships of their lives.
Friday, July 28, 2023
A constructive attempt to overcome the hardships of their lives
Essay by Theodore Dalrymple, The Spectator, 9 August, 2003.
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