"By no means run in debt:
take thine own measure.
Who cannot live on twenty pounds a year,
Cannot on forty:
he's a man of pleasure,
A kind of thing that's for itself too dear."--George Herbert
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"Economy is a poor man's revenue; extravagance, a rich man's ruin." ~~??, frontspiece, The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria Child, Harper & Row, 1836 edition (dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy).
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