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CHAPTER II
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If he save it, he will always find that he has sufficient opportunities for employing it profitably and usefully.
"When I was down in Lancashire the other day," said Mr.Cobden to his fellow-townsmen at Midhurst, "I visited a mill, in company with some other gentlemen, and that mill belonged to a person whose real name I will not mention, but whom for the present purpose I will call Mr.
Smith.

There could not have been less than three or four thousand persons engaged in this mill when it was at work, and there were seven hundred power-looms under one roof.

As we were coming away, one of the friends who accompanied me patted the owner of the mill on the shoulder, and with that frank and manly familiarity which rather distinguishes the Lancashire race, he said, 'Mr.Smith was a working man himself twenty-five years ago, and he owes all this entirely to his own industry and frugality.' To which Mr.Smith immediately replied, in the same frank and good-humoured manner, 'Nay, I do not owe it all to myself; I married a wife with a fortune; for she was earning 9_s_ 6_d_.

a week as a weaver at the power-loom, when she married me.'" Thrift of Time is equal to thrift of money.

Franklin said, "Time is gold." If one wishes to earn money, it may be done by the proper use of time.


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