Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 153

The author might even cite his own case as an illustration of the advantages of thrift. His mother was left a widow, when her youngest child--the youngest of eleven--was only three weeks old. Notwithstanding a considerable debt on account of a suretyship, which was paid, she bravely met the difficulties of her position, and perseveringly overcame them. Though her income was less than that of many highly paid working men, she educated her children well, and brought them up religiously and virtuously. She put her sons in the way of doing well, and if they have not done so, it was through no fault of hers.

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