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Often appears with: self-education · poverty and wealth · marriage and betrothal · household consumption and luxury · frugality and industriousness · famine, scarcity, and plenty · education and the training of the young · daily reading schedule
Usually: narrative (1) · temptation (1) · detachment (1)
“We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife.” Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · precept
Franklin describes how the subscription library enabled daily self-improvement, and he ties his frugal study routine and industry to his wife’s help, plain living, and gradual move toward household luxuries.
yourself will be encouraged to claim it, and then even envy will be disposed to do you justice by plucking those assumed feathers, and restoring them to their right owner. This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day, and thus repair'd in some degree the loss of the learned education my father once intended for me. Reading was the only amusement I…