关于年轻的富兰克林英文文章

这个行吗 Hints for Those That Would Be Rich

by Benjamin Franklin

The Use of Money is all the Advantage there is in having Money. For ￡6 a Year you may have the Use of ￡100 if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.

He that spends a Grout a day idly, spends idly above ￡6 a year, which is the Price of using ￡100.

He that wastes idly a Grout's worth of his Time per Day, one Day with another, wastes the Privilege of using ￡100 each day.

He that idly loses 5 Grouts’worth of time, loses 5 Grouts. and might as prudently throw 5 Grouts. in the River.

He that loses 5 Grouts. not only loses that Sum, but all the Advantage that might be made by turning it in Dealing, which, by the time that a young Man becomes old, amounts to a comfortable Bag of Money.

Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells equivalent to the Principal and Interest of his Money f