Chapter 37
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Whosoever contents himself with doing the little duties of the day, great things will, by-and-by, present themselves to him for their fulfilment also.
--_Howard Pyle._
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We make time for duties we love.
--_Unknown._
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One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.
--_Spanish._
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What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off.
--_Chinese._
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'Tis easy for any man who has his foot unentangled by sufferings, both to exhort and to admonish him that is in difficulties.
--_Aeschylus._
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If you take things easy when you ought to be doing your best work, you will probably have to keep hard at work when you might be taking it easy.
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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
--_From the German._
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He that eats longest lives longest.
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Half of what we eat is sufficient to enable us to live, and the other half that we eat enables the doctors to live.
--_Dr. Osler._
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Economy is the easy chair of old age.
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He that will not economize may some day have to agonize.
--_Confucius._
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Economy is no disgrace; it is better living on a little, than living beyond your means.
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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
--_Mencius._
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Lay up something for a rainy day; it may be needed some day.
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Economy is something like a savings-bank, into which we drop pennies and get dollars in return.
--_H. W. Shaw._