It has no
bounds; it pervades all ranks, and characterizes all ages.
I know the wife of a pavier, who spends her three hundred a year
in 'outward adorning,' and who will not condescend to speak to her
husband, while engaged in his honest calling.
Mechanics, who should have too high a sense of their own
respectability to resort to such pitiful competition, will indulge
their daughters in dressing like the wealthiest; and a domestic would
certainly leave you, should you dare advise her to lay up one cent of
her wages.
'These things ought not to be.' Every man and every woman should
lay up some portion of their income, whether that income be great or
small.
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HOW TO ENDURE POVERTY.
That a thorough, religious, _useful_ education is the best security
against misfortune, disgrace and poverty, is universally believed
and acknowledged; and to this we add the firm conviction, that,
when poverty comes (as it sometimes will) upon the prudent, the
industrious, and the well-informed, a judicious education is
all-powerful in enabling them to _endure_ the evils it cannot always
_prevent_.
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