The Second Cure, Control Your Expenses

How can a man keep one tenth of all he earns in his purse, when all the coins he earns are not enough for his necessary expenses? So did our cat address his students upon the second day? Yesterday, how many of thee carried lean purses? All of us answered the class. Yet thou do not all earn the same. Some earn much more than others; some have larger families to support. Yet all purses were equally lean. Now, I will tell thee an unusual truth about men and sons of men. It is this that what each of us calls our necessary expenses will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary. Confused not the necessary expenses with