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To acquire money, and live comloitably, is the first 

 and most natural wilh of all young tradesmen j for this 

 plain reason, that there is no living- comfortably without 

 inoney. But it unfortunately happens, that many do not 

 know what they themselves desire. Tojive comfortably is 

 an easy matter. A little money wiTl suffice for this purpose ; 

 but many understand comfortably to mean luxuriously oi 

 splendidly. The moment they affix this meaning to the 

 v.ord comfortably, their good principles receive a (hock, 

 and vee find them deviating by little and little from the 

 generosity of their character. The first thmg a man 

 does who is ambitious of great wealth, is to Lunch out 

 into more businefses ihan one. One businefs, however 

 has generally been found sufficient for one man ; of more 

 he mast have but a superficial knowledge, and lays him- 

 self open to deceit and disappointment. Difsatisfied men 

 seldom succeed in any thing. They are not contented with 

 the fair profits of trade, and consequently will form secret 

 fraudulent schemes for increasing those profits ; schemes 

 which perhaps may, in some cases, never be detected, but 

 more frequently are detected to the (hame, confusion, and 

 ruin of the unhappy contriver. 



Be always then content with small profits of your trade. 

 Do not fix your eyes too eagerly on the great fortunes 

 which have been made in London. There is nothing, u 

 is true, in your case different from that of those men, 

 when they were like you young and not provided for. But 

 ■vou are to consider, that you may perhaps be of a busi- 

 nefs in which few fortunes ever were made. Such trades we 

 know there are ; and if you know this to be the case, 

 you will be the lefs an.'cious to amafs more money than 

 your businefs can bnr . Nor, when you look at men 

 who have risen to great ortanes, ..re you always to sup- 

 pose that they have acquired such fortunsi by lUs most 

 creditable means. 



