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cquired. Ten plain rules. 78-82 Section XIV. Personal Habits.--Business of the day planned in the morning. Dressing, shaving, &c. Shaving with cold water. Anecdote. 82-88 Section XV. Bathing and Cleanliness.--Connection of Cleanliness with Moral Purity. Neglect of this subject. 88-89 Section XVI. Little Things.--Not to be disregarded. Zimmerman. The world _made up_ of little things. 89-93 Section XVII. Anger, and the means of restraining it. Avoid the first steps. An error in education. Opinion of Dr. Darwin. The Quaker and the Merchant. Zimmerman's method of _overcoming_ anger. Unreasonableness of returning evil for evil. 93-99 CHAPTER II.--ON THE MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS. Section I. Commencing Business.--Avoid debt. Do not begin too early. Facts stated. Why young men do not take warning. Students of Medicine and Divinity. Examples for imitation. 100-108 Section II. Importance of Integrity.--Thieves and robbers respect it. What it is. Many kinds of dishonesty. 1. Concealing the market price. 2. Misrepresenting it. 3. Selling unsound or defective goods, and calling them sound and perfect. Quack medicines. 4. Concealing defects. 5. Lowering the value of things we wish to buy. 6. Use of false weights and measures. Other kinds of dishonesty. 108-115 Section III. Method.--Memorandum book; its uses. Rules for doing much business in little time. 116-117 Section IV. Application to Business.--Every person ought to have one principal object of pursuit, and steadily pursue it. Perseverance of a shopkeeper. All _useful_ employments respectable. Character of a _drone_. 117-120 Section V. Proper Time and Season of doing Business.--When to deal with the gloomy; the intemperate; those unhappy in domestic life; men involved in public concerns. 120-122 Section VI. Buying upon Trust.--Live within our income. _Calculate._ Buy nothing but what you need. Estimates and examples to show the folly of credit. Not intended as lessons of stinginess. 122-127 Section VII. We should endeavor to do our business ourselves. Four reasons. Trusting dependants. We can do many little things without hindrance. 127-130 Section VIII. Over Trading.--A species of _f
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