Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 428

"A miner, the father of a family, reclaimed from drunkenness, saved his money in the bank until, with the aid of a loan from a building society, he built two houses at a cost of four hundred pounds. The bank has been to many people what the hive is to the bee--a kind of repository; and when the wintry days of sickness or adversity befall them, they have then the bank to flee to for succour."

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