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Read & copy the quotation
“It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.”
- Source
- The Art of Money Getting
- Date
- 1880
Meaning of “It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this…”
Saving is described as a learned habit whose rewards can become easier to appreciate through repeated practice rather than immediate deprivation alone.
Where does it come from?
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.
