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nor any sort of fancy property at least, not till you shall 

 be out of debt, with good buildings, well fenced fields, and 

 everything comfortable about you. Thus move on quietly 

 and steadily ; and if you have no bad luck, you may be be 

 yond the reach or fear of want in five years, in comfortable 

 circumstances by the end of ten, and as well off as a man 

 need be within twenty. 



&quot;Do you say this seems a slow, humdrum, petty way of 

 getting rich ? Well, it is not quite so fast as gambling, or 

 slave-trading, or making $100,000 in a month by cornering 

 an adverse party in the stock market ; but let two hundred 

 young men try the course we have so rapidly outlined, 

 against an equal number who try any radically different 

 course gold-mining, trading, speculating, or the profes 

 sions and if our party do not, in the average, come out 

 very far ahead, we shall be forced to conclude that the 

 world is a lottery and that Chance is God.&quot; 



