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[TRANSCRIBED] ?Twelve True Old Golden Rules
For those who like to fare better than they now do,
and at the same time to thrive and grow rich.
1 The ready penny always fetches the best bargain.
He who buys upon trust, must not complain if he
is cheated. The shopkeeper suspects the customer
who buys on trust, and thinks that he means to cheat
and never to pay; and therefore he takes good care
to be before hand, and charges highly accordingly.
2 The best pennyworth is to be had where most sit together
in the open market; and bargains are often cheaper in
the latter end of the day. When honest men have done
their work, it is better for them to go to market than
to the alehouse
3 When times are hard, why should we make them harder
Still, it is not enough to be taxed once by Government
without being taxed by folly, thrice by drunkenness
four times by Laziness, and so on ? a good man, even
in hard times will do twice as well as a bad man
will in the best of times, let us all then rise up
against ourselves, who thus tax and injure ourselves
and we shall soon find that the times mend. let us
do good to ourselves at home, and we shall become
happy in our own habitations; and learn that it
is a true saying, that God helps those who help themselves.
4 Time is our estate; it is our most valuable property
If we lose it, or waste it, we can never ? never purchase
it back again. We ought, therefore, not to have an idle
hour, or throw away an idle penny. While we employ
our time and our property (however small that property
may be) to the best advantage, we shall find that a
fortune may be made in any situation of life; and
that poor man, who once wanted assistance himself
may become able to assist and relieve others
5 Industry will make a man a purse, and frugality
will find him strings for it, Neither the purse nor
nor the strings will cost him any thing. He who has
it should only draw the strings as frugality directs
and he will be sure always to find an useful
penny at the bottom of it the servants of industry
are known by their livery; it is always whole
and wholesome. Idleness travels very leisurely,
and poverty soon overtakes her. look at the ragged
Slaves of idleness and judge which is the best
master to serve ? Industry or Idleness
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