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Monthly Archives: July 1758

No. 16. Drugget’s retirement.

July 29, 1758

I rejoiced at the increasing prosperity of my friend, and imagined that, as he grew rich, he was growing happy.

No. 15. Treacle’s complaint of his wife.

July 22, 1758

I do not know any greater misfortune can happen to a plain hard-working tradesman, as I am, than to be joined to such a woman.

No. 14. Robbery of time.

July 15, 1758

Time therefore ought, above all other kinds of property, to be free from invasion; and yet there is no man who does not claim that power.

No. 13. The imaginary housewife.

July 8, 1758

I married a wife with no great fortune, but of a family remarkable for domestick prudence, and elegant frugality.

No. 12. Marriages, why advertised.

July 1, 1758

To get a name, can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought.

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