Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Source: The Waverley Novels (1858; repr. in Literary Studies, vol. 2, 1878).
-- Walter Bagehot, (Feb 3 1826-1877), English economist, editor, critic, analyst; He founded and edited The Economist 1860-77; wrote English Constitution, 1867.