Living Within Your Means【量力而为】







It is never a disgrace to say,

'I can not afford it.'

It is shameful to commit yourself to expenditure you know you can not really afford and should not make

? just because someone else urges you to go against your own better judgment.

I have respect for the person for who can say without any self-consciousness at all,

simply and cheerfully,

'I can not afford it.' But I hate to hear a long-drawn-out explanation of why .

As a matter of fact,

we should never demand to know why a person can not spend money on something he says he can not afford unless there is s sound reason for his finding some way to afford it.

Then you may,

if you feel you should, try to show him that way,

quietly and without irritating him.
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