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The Prosperity of Saving

Prosperity is a more severe ordeal than adversity, especially sudden prosperity. I know a gentleman of fortune who says that when he first began to prosper his wife would have a new and elegant sofa. That sofa, he says, cost me thirty thousand dollars. Easy come, easy go, is an old and true proverb. A spirit of pride and vanity, when permitted to have full sway, is the undying cankerworm which gnaws the very vitals of a man's worldly possessions,. let them be small or great hundreds or millions. Some families expend twenty thousand dollars per annum; others secure more solid enjoyment frequently on a twentieth part of that amount.

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