Once, when he had met a poor man and considered his poverty, he said to his companions, 'This man's poverty brings great shame on us, and is a stern rebuke to our own. For since I have chosen holy poverty as my lady, my delight, and my spiritual and bodily treasure, I feel the greatest shame when I find someone poorer than myself.'
Saint Francis of Assisi
Mirror of Perfection - 18
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