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The Secret of Wealth

"The way to wealth is as plain as the way toindividual and by society than the condition
market -- it depends on two words, industryof poverty; it maddens a good man to crime
and frugality; that is, waste neither timeand drives a madman to destruction. The
nor money, but make the best of both. Withoutcondition of poverty is not a normal one and
industry and frugality nothing will do; withmay quite easily be thrown off by any one who
them  everything."  --  Franklin.has health and the will of progress. It was
Thucydides  who  said  this  about 425 B. C.:
As a man chooses his coat for its wearing
qualities or for the moment's passing whim,"An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any
so does he choose his destiny. Theman; to make no effort to escape it is indeed
responsibility and the result lie with thedisgraceful."
chooser. Each living person chooses--and each
hour that passes fixes his choice deeper andNearly 2,200 years later Oliver Goldsmith
deeper  in  his  daily  life.said:
Wealth is a state of mind or perhaps 'twould"To be poor, and seem to be poor, is a
be better to say that wealth is createdcertain  way  never  to  rise."
through a state of mind. Few people get rich
or acquire riches at a single stroke; mostSo for more than 2,000 years, it has been
people who become rich grow rich, and theunderstood that the person, who was poor and
growth and development of a personal fortunelet it be known, and made little or no effort
is sometimes scarcely noted by the busy manto rise above poverty, was largely
or woman, who is thus almost unconsciouslyresponsible  for  his  own unhappy condition.
growing  rich.
Poverty and pauperism must not be confused;
The acquiring of money and property, onceone who has, through misfortune, ill-health
begun, is a simple and easy process; growingor a combination of circumstances, become a
rich comes through habits that are such fixedpauper may have left to him no avenue of
parts of one's daily life that, once on theescape. The pauper is to be pitied and to be
road to wealth, it would be quite difficult,helped.
if not wholly impossible, to stop the
growth*.*The poor are those people who spend more than
they get or at least spend all they get;
"If you live according to what natureBruyere put it thus--"He is poor whose
requires, you mill never be poor; ifexpenses exceed his income." If such a
according to the notions of men, you willcondition should obtain long enough, that
never be rich. This is especially detrimentalperson would be a pauper; from poverty to
to us, that we live, not according to thepauperism is not a long step; it is only a
light of reason, but after the fashion set byshort  slide.
others."
Wealth, ease, comfort and even contentment
These thoughts from Lucius Annaeus Seneca,are within the reach of each one of us,
who was born in Rome before the year One. Itthough we all travel different roads toward
is easy to see that the same things keptour selected goals. The paths of some of us
people poor in those days as in our own timelie over mountains where, if we have the
and the principles of living well and happilystrength, we may leap from peak to peak of
and gradually acquiring wealth have notsuccess, but the many of us, the great
changed  a  whit  since  the  year  One.multitude, who travel the level plains, must
approach success steadily rod by rod, mile by
There is no condition into which a man maymile, day by day and year by year.
come that is more to be feared by the



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