So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business;…

Benjamin Franklin
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, p.478
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