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The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part VI, Section II discussion of systems that make virtue consist in benevolence; historical spelling “œconomy” is retained.

The Wealth of Nations, Book II, Chapter II; Project Gutenberg #3300. “Neat rent” is Smith’s historical term for net rent after management, repair, and other necessary charges.

The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter V; Smith discusses labour as the original price and measure behind exchange.

The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter V; Project Gutenberg #3300. This belongs to Smith’s labour-command discussion of real and nominal price.

The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter V; Project Gutenberg #3300. The historical spelling “conveniencies” is retained; this is classical political economy, not a modern household-wealth metric.

The Gospel of Wealth; Carnegie argues that surplus wealth carries social responsibilities during the owner’s lifetime.

The Gospel of Wealth, first sentence of the 1889 essay “Wealth.” Carnegie’s position is a historical normative argument about concentrated wealth, not a neutral description of modern economics.

Andrew Carnegie, 'Wealth,' North American Review, June 1889 (the first essay later known as The Gospel of Wealth). It is historical philanthropic/economic argument rather than a settled economic finding.

The Gospel of Wealth, first essay; 1889 North American Review text. Carnegie explicitly separates ordinary competence needed for family maintenance and education from the concentrated surplus wealth his argument addresses.

The Wisdom of Life; T. Bailey Saunders’s public-domain translation distinguishes what a person is from possessions and from the opinions of other people.

Advice to a Young Tradesman, 21 July 1748; concluding advice on industry and frugality.

Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. The lowercase opening is retained because this is a clause from Franklin’s longer sentence about strangers, law, liberty and industry.

Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. The statement is eighteenth-century description and advocacy, not modern financial, employment or immigration guidance.

Poor Richard’s Almanack; a compact maxim about managing work before accumulated demands begin managing you.

Poor Richard’s Almanack for 1736; Franklin uses a short contrast to emphasize the persistence of financial obligations.

Poor Richard’s Almanack; proverb on routine, work and practical discipline.

The Way to Wealth, where Father Abraham repeats maxims associated with Poor Richard.

The Way to Wealth, frugality section; Project Gutenberg #43855. The maxim introduces Franklin’s distinction between apparent cheapness and genuine value.

The Way to Wealth, frugality section; Project Gutenberg #43855. The line appears in a short verse warning against pride-driven spending on dress.

The Way to Wealth / Poor Richard Improved, industry section; represented by Project Gutenberg #43855. Father Abraham is compiling maxims from Franklin’s earlier Almanacks.

The Way to Wealth, debt-and-credit section; Project Gutenberg #43855. This is eighteenth-century moral rhetoric and should not be read as a judgment that indebted people are inherently dishonest.

The Way to Wealth; Father Abraham repeats the Poor Richard maxim while warning about small but cumulative expenses.

The Way to Wealth, frugality section; Project Gutenberg #43855 preserves the historical spelling “expences.” The ship image is one of the Poor Richard maxims quoted by Father Abraham.

The Way to Wealth, in Franklin’s discussion of debt and credit.

The Way to Wealth, frugality section; Project Gutenberg #43855. Father Abraham contrasts industrious people with those reduced to borrowing by extravagance.

The Way to Wealth, section III, frugality discussion, Project Gutenberg #43855. Father Abraham repeats the Poor Richard maxim “Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries” while warning auction-goers that an apparent bargain can become dear when the purchase is unnecessary. The persona and eighteenth-century moral-financial context remain explicit; this is not individualized financial advice.

The Way to Wealth, frugality section; Project Gutenberg #43855. The meal-tub is Franklin’s domestic metaphor for continual consumption without replacement.

The Future of the American Negro, Chapter III; Project Gutenberg #26507. This is a deliberately short excerpt from Washington’s 1899 argument about becoming a producer as well as a consumer; historical racial context is retained in the source note.

De Officiis, Book II, section 64; Cicero discusses generosity while also warning against careless management of one’s property.

A Little Princess; Sara uses an imagined inner identity to preserve dignity during poverty and mistreatment.

Life Without Principle, first published posthumously in The Atlantic Monthly in October 1863; represented Wikisource text. It derives from Thoreau’s lecture “What Shall It Profit?” and is social criticism, not hiring research.

Walden, Conclusion; Thoreau closes the book by contrasting outward wealth and status with the inner quality of a person’s life.

Walden, chapter “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”; wealth is reframed through reduced dependence.

Matthew 5:42 in the King James Version.

Unto This Last, fourth essay, first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1860 and collected in book form in 1862; Project Gutenberg #36541. This is Ruskin’s normative political-economy argument, not a modern empirical wealth metric.

Unto This Last, fourth essay; Project Gutenberg #36541. The line follows Ruskin’s distinction between production and consumption and retains the nineteenth-century political-economy setting.

Unto This Last, fourth essay; Project Gutenberg #36541. The sentence continues by defining production through serviceable consumption; tagging it to productivity records that critique of raw output rather than equating Ruskin with modern productivity science.

The Prophet, “On Giving.”

The Prophet, “On Work.”

Proverbs 22:4 in the King James Version.

Pudd’nhead Wilson, Calendar epigraph before the section following Chapter VII; the lending-money qualification supplies the punch line.

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Letter XIV; represented Cassell & Company 1889 text in Project Gutenberg #3529. After arguing that commerce helped England and America undermine feudal power, Wollstonecraft warns that “the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.” This remains historical political-economic reflection within the travel letters rather than present-day financial or legal guidance.

The Gift of the Magi, Project Gutenberg #7256. The narrator offers the line just after Della counts her $1.87 and cries on the couch before Christmas; it is humorous literary narration within a story of poverty, love and gift-giving.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890 Lippincott magazine text, Chapter 3; Lord Henry gives the price-and-value epigram after describing a bargain for old brocade.

The Art of Money Getting, section “Avoid Debt”; Project Gutenberg #8581. The advice is period-specific and not a blanket claim that every productive use of credit is harmful.

The Art of Money Getting, unheaded opening economy discussion before the first formal contents section, Project Gutenberg #8581. “True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go” follows Barnum’s contrast between real economy and penny-wise meanness and leads into his margin-of-income example. The queue parser’s inherited “rule i” hint is not a printed heading in this witness. This remains nineteenth-century conduct-of-life and financial rhetoric, not individualized financial planning or a guaranteed savings rule.

The Art of Money Getting, expense-account discussion; Project Gutenberg #8581. This is Barnum’s historical generalization about comfort and spending, not a modern cost-of-living statistic.

The Art of Money Getting, economy section; Project Gutenberg #8581. Barnum introduces the line while describing lifestyle expansion after financial success.

The Art of Money Getting, “Avoid Debt”; Project Gutenberg #8581. Barnum uses the servant-and-master metaphor while contrasting interest working for versus against the borrower.

The Art of Money Getting, opening economy section; Project Gutenberg #8581. Barnum contrasts rational saving with irrational spending in his nineteenth-century personal-finance rhetoric.

Character, Chapter I, “Influence of Character,” Project Gutenberg #2541. The brief statement introduces Smiles’s comparison of character with property: an enduring possession expressed through goodwill, esteem and an honourably earned reputation.

Self-Help, Chapter IX, “Men of Business,” Project Gutenberg #935. The line appears in the chapter’s discussion of honesty in business: Smiles argues that even temporary material loss is preferable to sacrificing character, which he describes as a fortune in itself.

Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. The sentence occurs in the same definition of thrift as an acquired principle of conduct: present enjoyment is subordinated to forethought so that action serves today while providing for tomorrow.

Thrift, Chapter II, “Habits of Thrift,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles says thrift requires neither exceptional courage nor intellect but ordinary common sense, resistance to selfish enjoyment and patient self-denial.

Thrift, Chapter XIV, “Riches and Charity,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles argues that money alone cannot reform conduct and says change from intemperance, improvidence and irreligion requires earnest purpose, self-devotion and hard work; that nineteenth-century reform context is preserved.

Thrift, Chapter II, “Habits of Thrift,” Project Gutenberg #14418. The sentence completes Smiles’s practical paragraph on forming habits of economy: repeated thrift becomes easier and eventually compensates the self-denial it initially requires.

Thrift, Preface; original Preface dated London, November 1875, verified in Project Gutenberg #14418’s represented John Murray Fiftieth Thousand witness (London, 1892). Smiles introduces the book as a sequel to Self-Help and Character and writes that thrift is the basis of Self-Help and the foundation of much that is excellent in Character. This remains Victorian conduct-of-life and moral-economic argument rather than current financial guidance.

Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles contrasts inherited material wealth with the more durable inheritance of useful human skill and labour transmitted across generations by teaching and example.

Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 2.

The New Nationalism, August 31, 1910. The sentence occurs in Roosevelt’s argument for regulation and graduated taxation of large fortunes; it is historical political-economic rhetoric rather than modern financial advice.

All’s Well That Ends Well, Act III, Scene 5; Mariana warns Diana about Bertram and says that no legacy is so rich as honesty. Verified against Wikisource’s 1910 facsimile transcription of the 1623 First Folio; direct evidence resolves to the reviewed Act III transcription.