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By Benjamin Franklin
Remember that Time is Money. He that can earn Ten Shillings a Day by his Labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that Day, tho’ he spends but Sixpence during his Diversion or Idleness, ought not to reckon That the only Expence; he has really spent or rather thrown away Five Shillings besides.
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- Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One, July 21, 1748 · The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 3, pp. 304-308
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- Founders Online, National Archives (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 3)
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From Franklin's Advice to a Young Tradesman, written July 21, 1748 as hints "To my Friend A. B." and printed in George Fisher's The American Instructor (Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1748).