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190. If you take the pains at firſt to mention particulars, it will have this good effect; you will diſcover how wonderfully ſmall trifling expences mount up to large fums, and will diſcern what might have been, and may for the future be ſaved, without occaſioning any great inconvenience.

In ſhort, the way to wealth, if you deſire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, induſtry and frugality; that is, waſte neither time nor money, but make the beſt uſe of both. Without induſtry and frugality nothing will do, and with them every thing. He that gets all he can honeſtly, and ſaves all he gets (neceſſary expences excepted), will certainly become rich—if that Being who governs the world, to whom all ſhould look for a bleſſing on their honeſt endeavours, doth not, in his wiſe providence, otherwiſe determine.

AN OLD TRADESMAN.