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"Many a little, makes a mickle." Beware of little expences; "A small leak will sink a great ship," as Poor Richard says; and again, "Who dainties love, shall beggars prove;" and moreover, "Fools make feasts, and wife men eat them."
Here you are all got together to this sale of fineries and nick-knacks. You call them goods; but, if you do not take care, they will prove evils to some of you. You expect they will be fold 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 fell thy
neccssaries." 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, "It is foolish to lay out money in a purchase of repentance and yet this folly is practised every day at audlions, for want of minding the. Almanack. Many a one, for the
