I'm not perfect, and I don't pretend to be.
I'm not perfect, but I'm always me.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.