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die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;" and
"Many estates are spent in the getting,
"Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting,
"And men for punch for sook hewing and splitting."
"If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes."
Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not then have so much cause to complain of hard times, heavy taxes, and chargeable families; for
"Women and wine, game and deceit,
"Make the wealth small, and the want great."
And farther, "What maintains one vice, would bring up two chiidren." You may think, perhaps, that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, cloaths a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter; but remember,
