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People ought to be as sensible on the subject of money-getting as on any
other subject. Like causes produces like effects. You cannot accumulate a
fortune by taking the road that leads to poverty. It needs no prophet to tell
us that those who live fully up to their means, without any thought of a
reverse in this life, can never attain a pecuniary independence.
Men and women accustomed to gratify every whim and caprice, will find it
hard, at first, to cut down their various unnecessary expenses, and will feel
it a great self-denial to live in a smaller house than they have been
accustomed to, with less expensive furniture, less company, less costly
clothing, fewer servants, a less number of balls, parties, theater-goings,
carriage-ridings, pleasure excursions, cigar-smokings, liquor-drinkings, and
other extravagances; but, after all, if they will try the plan of laying by a
“nest-egg,” or, in other words, a small sum of money, at interest or
judiciously invested in land, they will be surprised at the pleasure to be
derived from constantly adding to their little “pile,” as well as from all the
economical habits which are engendered by this course.
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