Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that's even truer.

But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice.

In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one.

For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

Hence the pot-house! Honoured sir, a month ago Mr.Lebeziatnikov gave my wife a beating, and my wife is a very different matter from me! Do you understand?
Allow me to ask you another question out of simple curiosity: have you ever spent a night on a hay barge, on the Neva ?" "No, I have not happened to," answered Raskolnikov.