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CHAPTER XII. REFLECTIONS ON MONEY-MAKING.
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We have little faith in reflections. If a man cannot draw an inference for himself, it is little use anyone attempting to draw it for him. The reader of the preceding pages must have been taught, by example, how to get money. The art of money-making is a very simple one. If your income is twenty pounds, and you spend nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings, and elevenpence-three-farthings, you will never be troubled about money matters; and, in the course of years, may have a fortune commensurate with so modest an expenditure1. Having thus acquired a small amount of capital, you must not part with it to mining-brokers or stock-brokers, however plausible2 the tale they tell, and however friendly you may be with them. They are bound to do business, and for the sake of that, will help their nearest friend to an investment of the rottenest character. Stock-brokers may have a sense of honour—may be gentlemen; but I question much whether a money-broker has any feeling for his clients, I have known little money made by outsiders speculating on the Stock Exchange or in mines. I have known many reduced to beggary and want by such means.
Dr. Smiles writes—“The successful merchant is not merely the man who is most fertile in commercial combinations, but the man who acts upon his judgment4 with the greatest promptitude.” Mr. Crampton, George Moore’s partner, says—“I never knew him make a mistake in judgment.”
Another fact to be observed is, that it is the country lads who, as a rule, are the most successful. At first they fail in accuracy, and quickness, and promptitude. They are slow compared with town-bred boys. “The City boy,” writes Dr. Smiles, “scarcely grows up; he is rushed up; he lives amid a constant succession of excitements, one obliterating5 another. It is very different with the country boy; he is much slower in arriving at his maturity6 than the town boy, but he is greater when he reaches it; he is hard and uncouth7
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expenditure
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(wide area network)广域网 | |
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persevering
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speculation
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advertising
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posterity
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munificence
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mansion
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gambling
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adj.节俭的,节约的,少量的,微量的 | |
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frugality
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providence
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scarcity
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recollect
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possessed
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prolific
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patrimony
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