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Buy what thou hast no need of; and e’er long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

Quotes

“Sleep without supping, and you'll rise without owing for it.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Silk and satins and scarlets and velvets put out the kitchen fire.”

Benjamin Franklin · The Way to Wealth, 1758 · Primary source

“Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Wealth, 1860 · Primary source

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

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