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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern

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Benjamin Franklin
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Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)

Industry · anthology attribution: Franklin

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