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Waste Not, Want Not
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Waste Not, Want Not
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Two Strings1 to Your Bow
Mr. Gresham, a Bristol merchant, who had, by honourable2 industry and economy, accumulated a considerable fortune, retired3 from business to a new house which he had built upon the Downs, near Clifton. Mr. Gresham, however, did not imagine that a new house alone could make him happy. He did not propose to live in idleness and extravagance; for such a life would have been equally incompatible4 with his habits and his principles. He was fond of children; and as he had no sons, he determined5 to adopt one of his relations. He had two nephews, and he invited both of them to his house, that he might have an opportunity of judging of their dispositions7, and of the habits which they had acquired.
Hal and Benjamin, Mr. Gresham's nephews, were about ten years old. They had been educated very differently. Hal was the son of the elder branch of the family. His father was a gentleman, who spent rather more than he[Pg 205] could afford; and Hal, from the example of the servants in his father's family, with whom he had passed the first years of his childhood, learned to waste more of everything than he used. He had been told that 'gentlemen should be above being careful and saving'; and he had unfortunately imbibed8 a notion that extravagance was the sign of a generous disposition6, and economy of an avaricious9 one.
Benjamin, on the contrary, had been taught habits of care and foresight10. His father had but a very small fortune, and was anxious that his son should early learn that economy ensures independence, and sometimes puts it in the power of those who are not very rich to be very generous.
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