“If a workman can conveniently spare those three halfpence, he buys a pot of porter. If he cannot, he contents himself with a pint, and, as a penny saved is a penny got, he thus gains a farthing by his temperance.”
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, Article IV, p. 951.
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