Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 52

As a guarantee of independence, the modest and plebeian quality of economy is at once ennobled and raised to the rank of one of the most meritorious of virtues. "Never treat money affairs with levity," said Bulwer; "Money is Character." Some of man's best qualities depend upon the right use of money,--such as his generosity, benevolence, justice, honesty, and forethought. Many of his worst qualities also originate in the bad use of money,--such as greed, miserliness, injustice, extravagance, and improvidence.

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