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<p>See here, 1. How a small estate may be improved by industry, so that a man, by making the best of every thing, may live comfortably upon it: <i>Much food is in the tillage of the poor</i>, the poor farmers, that have but a little, but take pains with that little and husband it well. Many make it an excuse for their idleness that they h f6d ave but a little to work on, a very little to be doing with; but the less compass the field is of the more let the skill and labour of the owner be employed about it, and it will turn to a very good account. Let him dig, and he needs not beg. 2. How a great estate may be ruined by indiscretion: <i>There is that</i> has a great deal, but it <i>is destroyed</i> and brought to nothing <i>for want of judgment</i>, that is, prudence in the management of it. Men over-build themselves or over-buy themselves, keep greater company, or a better table, or more servants, than they can afford, suffer what they have to go to decay and do not make the most of it; by taking up money themselves, or being bound for others, their estates are sunk, their families reduced, and all <i>for want of judgment</i>.</p>
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