_If you would be healthy_, says he in another _Almanac, think of Saving, as well as of Getting! The Indies have not made Spain rich; because her Outgoes are greater than her Incomes_. Away, then, with your expensive follies! and you will not have so much cause to complain of hard Times, heavy taxes, and chargeable families. For, as _Poor DICK_ says, _Women and Wine, Game and Deceit, Make the Wealth small, and the Wants great_. And farther, _What maintains one vice, would bring up two children_. You may think perhaps, that, a _little_ tea, or a _little_ punch, now and then; diet, a _little_ more costly; clothes, a _little_ finer; and a _little_ entertainment, now and then; can be no great matter. But remember what _Poor RICHARD_ says, _Many a Little makes a Mickle_; and farther, _Beware of little expenses! a small leak will sink a great ship_; and again, _Who dainties love; shall beggars prove!_ and moreover, _Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them_. Here are you all got together at this Vendue of Fineries and knicknacks! You call them Goods: but if you do not take care, they will prove Evils to some of you! You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may, for less than they cost; but if you have no occasion for them, they must be _dear_ to you! Remember what _Poor RICHARD_ says! _Buy what thou hast no need of, and, ere long, thou shalt sell thy necessaries!_ And again, _At a great pennyworth, pause a while!_ He means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only, and not real; or the bargain by straitening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good. For in another place, he says, _Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths_. Again, _Poor RICHARD_ says, _'Tis foolish, to lay out money in a purchase of Repentance_: and yet this folly is practised every day at Vendues, for want of minding the _Almanac_. _Wise men_, as _Poor DICK_ says, _learn by others' harms; Fools, scarcely by their own_: but _Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum_. Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half starved their families. _Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets_, as _Poor RICHARD_ says, _put out the kitchen fire!_ These are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences: and yet only because they look pretty, how many _want_ to have them! The artificial wants of mankind thus become more numerous than the natural; and as _Poor DICK_ says, _For one poor person, there are a hundred_ indigent.