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Thrift
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Title: Thrift
Author: Samuel Smiles
Release Date: December 22, 2004 [EBook #14418]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THRIFT.
BY SAMUEL SMILES,
"Be thrifty, but not covetous; therefore give Thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his due, Never was scraper brave man. Get to live, Then live, and use it; else it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Make money not a contemptible stone." GEORGE HERBERT.
"To catch Dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justify'd by Honour: Not for to hide it in a hedge, Not for a train attendant; But for the glorious privilege Of being Independent." ROBERT BURNS.
FIFTIETH THOUSAND.
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1892.
Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.
PREFACE.
This book is intended as a sequel to "Self-Help," and "Character." It might, indeed, have appeared as an introduction to these volumes; for Thrift is the basis of Self-Help, and the foundation of much that is excellent in Character.
The author has already referred to the Use and A