The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
FOR everything you have missed, you have gained something else; for everything you gain, you lose something." The law of compensation is working every minute. Beneath the insidious poison of spendthrift habits manly virtues and vigorous minds decay like figs in the sun. Luxurious living breeds waste of money, and waste of money breeds rotten hearts. No nation is stronger than its men. The squirrel shooters of Washington's army did not roll in cushioned automobiles and wear silk hose. They had hard bones--and that goes with frugal living and thrift. The best blood will thin if fed on luxury. The Greeks routed with a few hundred men at the pass of Thermopylae the glittering horde of Persia. But later after a time of wealth and ease, that heroic race became so effeminate that they wore light rings in summer and heavier ones in the winter. That was the end. Greece was lost by the men who died in defending her. "The aristocracy of idleness has passed. We have become a nation of workers; and we discover that the qualities which make a good soldier also evolve a good citizen." "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is no more a truism than'' Play hard and die young or work hard and live long". All play and no work develops the criminal instincts just as surely as all work and no play dulls the imagination. What this Country needs is more workers and savers and less slackers and wasters. The so-called buyer's strike after the World War took the wrong turn. It was not necessary to stop buying to reduce prices; it was only necessary to stop wasting. Work hard, buy what you need and what you can honestly enjoy and save the rest. No man can be really successful until he learns to work--and save. Let's begin. If we would work our heads half as hard in the spending of our money as we do in the earning of it, it would not take any of us very long to reach a comfortable financial position.
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The Secret Of Wealth