Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 47

The question may be asked,--Is it possible for a man working for small wages to save anything, and lay it by in a savings bank, when he requires every penny for the maintenance of his family? But the fact remains, that it _is_ done by many industrious and sober men; that they do deny themselves, and put their spare earnings into savings banks, and the other receptacles provided for poor men's savings. And if some can do this, all may do it under similar circumstances,--without depriving themselves of any genuine pleasure, or any real enjoyment.

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