CHAPTER I.
INDUSTRY.
“Not what I have, but what I do, is my kingdom.”—­Carlyle.
“Productive industry is the only capital which
enriches a people, and spreads national prosp...
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Asa Briggs, the twentieth-century social critic and historian who has devoted the most attention to Samuel Smiles, sums up Smiles's general significance best: "Every society has its propagandists who ...
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Thrift
Samuel Smiles