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4.If food is scarce it's no use complaining; we shall just have to pull in our belts.

5.If you are serious about building wealth, gird your loins and be prepared to put in.
6.By importing savings from abroad, poor countries can invest more than they are able to set aside from their own meagre output.
7.to found colonies, to have its people taught, to do anything in short which requires expense, and to do it with no sacrifice of the necessaries or even the substantial comforts of its inhabitants, are such as the world never saw before.

