Let him consider, that every stitch he takes when he is on his shop board is picking up part of a grain of gold, that will in a few days time amount to a pistole; and let Faber think the same of every nail he drives, or every stroke with his plane.
Franklin encourages craftsmen to see the value in their labor as a means to accumulate wealth over time.
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