Meaning of “You cannot accumulate a fortune by taking the…”

Thrift, Chapter V, “Examples of Thrift,” Project Gutenberg #14418. In the chapter’s opening discussion of domestic management, Smiles develops thrift as orderly use of household resources and then calls it the spirit of order in human life.

Moral printed after “The Widow and the Sheep”; the widow injures the sheep while trying to avoid the shearer’s expense.

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.

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, economy discussion; Project Gutenberg #8581. The sentence follows Barnum’s warning about trying to appear richer than one is.

The Simple Life, Chapter V, “Simple Duty,” Mary Louise Hendee translation, Project Gutenberg #23092; the phrase condenses his argument about nearby obligations.