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n of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.--JOHN FOSTER. ECONOMY.--Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.--H.W. SHAW. Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.--SPURGEON. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy hide-bound pocket soon begin to thrive and will never again cry with the empty belly-ache; neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.--FRANKLIN. He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.--FELTHAM. Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. --DR. JOHNSON. Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. --FRANKLIN. If you know how to spend less than you get you have the philosopher's stone.--FRANKLIN. Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.--JOUBERT. A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. --FRANKLIN. Those individuals who save money are better workmen; if they do not the work better, they behave better and are more respectable; and I would sooner have in my trade a hundred men who save money than two hundred who would spend every shilling they get. In proportion as individuals save a little money their morals are much better; they husband that little, and there is a superior tone given to their morals, and they behave better for knowing that they have a little stake in society. No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.--HALIBURTON. EDUCATION.--The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.--MRS. SIGOURNEY. A father inquires whether his boy can construe Homer, if he understands Horace, and can taste Virgil; but how seldom does he ask, or examine, or think whether he can restrain his passions,--whether he is grateful, generous, humane, compassionate, just and benevolent. --LADY HERVEY. The world is only saved by t
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