1 There was every sign of poverty; even the bedstead had no curtain.
2 Razumihin soon detected signs of extreme poverty in their belongings.
3 Honoured sir," he began almost with solemnity, "poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying.
4 In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one.
5 He was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him.
6 A family who had come to the town and been reduced to poverty were selling their household goods and clothes, all women's things.
7 "Poverty is not a vice, my friend, but we know you go off like powder, you can't bear a slight, I daresay you took offence at something and went too far yourself," continued Nikodim Fomitch, turning affably to Raskolnikov.
8 Her gloves, as Razumihin noticed, were not merely shabby but had holes in them, and yet this evident poverty gave the two ladies an air of special dignity, which is always found in people who know how to wear poor clothes.
9 And she was left at his death with three children in a wild and remote district where I happened to be at the time; and she was left in such hopeless poverty that, although I have seen many ups and downs of all sort, I don't feel equal to describing it even.
10 To the decisive question as to what motive impelled him to the murder and the robbery, he answered very clearly with the coarsest frankness that the cause was his miserable position, his poverty and helplessness, and his desire to provide for his first steps in life by the help of the three thousand roubles he had reckoned on finding.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII