What Poverty Is
Terry: Ours is the best country in the world as to poverty… We do not have the wretched paupers and beggars of the older countries, I assure you. Why, European visitors tell us, we don’t know what poverty is.
Zava: Neither do we… Won’t you tell us?
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Context: The explorers describe American society to women who have never met the idea of being poor.
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Source: Chapter 6, "Comparisons Are Odious"