[How to Succeed by Orison Swett Marden]@TWC D-Link bookHow to Succeed CHAPTER XVIII 7/8
So that under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
A penny here and a dollar there placed at interest go on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is obtained. "I wish I could write all across the sky in letters of gold," says Rev. William Marsh, "the one word, savings bank." Boston savings banks have $130,000,000 on deposit, mostly saved in driblets.
Josiah Quincy used to say that the servant girls built most of the palaces on Beacon street. "Nature uses a grinding economy," says Emerson, "working up all that is wasted to-day into to-morrow's creation; not a superfluous grain of sand for all the ostentation she makes of expense and public works.
She flung us out in her plenty, but we cannot shed a hair or a paring of a nail but instantly she snatches at the shred and appropriates it to her general stock.
Last summer's flowers and foliage decayed in autumn only to enrich the earth this year for other forms of beauty.
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