I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.


Letter to Mrs. Gladstone (14 January, 1860), as quoted in Gladstone as Financier and Economist (1931) by F. W. Hirst, p. 242

William Ewart Gladstone Quotes

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which...

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which...

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which...

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which...