Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 354

Take up a prospectus and tables of a Provident Society, intended for the use of those classes who have a penny a day to spend,--that is, nearly all the working classes of the country. It is not necessary to specify any particular society, because the best all proceed upon the same data,--the results of extensive observations and experience of health and sickness;--and their tables of rates, certified by public actuaries, are very nearly the same. Now, looking at the tables of these Life and Sickness Assurance Societies, let us see what a penny a day can do.

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