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    Default Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment

    "If a man setteth aside nine parts of his earnings upon which to live and enjoy life, and if any
    part of this nine parts he can turn into a profitable investment without detriment to his wellbeing, then
    so much faster will his treasures grow." So spake Arkad to his class at their fifth lesson.
    "All too many of our men of Babylon do raise their families in unseemly quarters. They do pay
    to exacting landlords liberal rentals for rooms where their wives have not a spot to raise the blooms that
    gladden a woman's heart and their children have no place to play their games except in the unclean
    alleys.
    "No man's family can fully enjoy life unless they do have a plot of ground wherein children can
    play in the clean earth and where the wife may raise not only blossoms but good rich herbs to feed her
    family.
    "To a man's heart, it brings gladness to eat the figs from his own trees and the grapes of his own
    vines. To own his own domicile and to have it a place he is proud to care for, putteth confidence in his
    heart and greater effort behind all his endeavors. Therefore, do I recommend that every man own the
    roof that sheltereth him and his.
    "Nor is it beyond the ability of any well-intentioned man to own his home. Hath not our great
    king so widely extended the walls of Babylon that within them much land is now 48unused and may be
    purchased at sums most reasonable?
    "Also I say to you, my students, that the money lenders gladly consider the desires of men who
    seek homes and land for their families. Readily may thou borrow to pay the brickmaker and the builder
    for such commendable purposes, if thou can show a reasonable portion of the necessary sum which
    thou thyself hath provided for the purpose.
    "Then when the house be built, thou canst pay the money lender with the same regularity as
    thou didst pay the landlord. Because each payment will reduce thy indebtedness to the money lender, a
    few years will satisfy his loan.
    "Then will thy heart be glad because thou wilt own in thy own right a valuable property and thy
    only cost will be the king's taxes.
    "Also wilt thy good wife go more often to the river to wash thy robes, that each time returning
    she may bring a goatskin of water to pour upon the growing things.
    "Thus come many blessings to the man who owneth his own house. And greatly will it reduce
    his cost of living, making available more of his earnings for pleasures and the gratification of his
    desires. This, then, is the fifth cure for a lean purse: Own thy own home"

    http://www.ccsales.com/the_richest_man_in_babylon.pdf

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    I think I have set aside too much, as much as 30%. Sianz.
    The three laws of Kelonguni:

    Where there is kelong, there is guni.
    No kelong no guni.
    More kelong = more guni.

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