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Quotation from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding
“Men do not become rich by what they get, but by what they keep”
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, The Voyage, Tuesday entry after July 26 (at anchor off Torbay) (Project Gutenberg #1146 (Murphy text))
From a digression on money and thrift prompted by the captain's calling the thirty pounds of passage money a 'pitiful' sum.
Citation: "Men do not become rich by what they get, but by what they keep" — Henry Fielding, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, The Voyage, Tuesday entry after July 26 (at anchor off Torbay) (Project Gutenberg #1146 (Murphy text)). (id fielding-journal-of-a-voyage-to-lisbon-q6)
