So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business, but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, "keep his nose all his life to the grindstone,... Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth - Seite 7von Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 288 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 Seiten
...these we must add frngality, if we would make our industry more certainly snccessful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all...grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kiteIten makes a lean will. "Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not then have so... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1858 - 454 Seiten
...text, and from it address our remarks. A if he knows no/ man may, how to save as he gets, " keep h's all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth...makes a lean will," and " Many estates are spent in getting-, Since women for tea forsook spin • ning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing... | |
| Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 Seiten
...if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as0 he gets, ' keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last.'7 'A fat kitchen makes a lean will,'8 as poor Richard says ; and, ' Many estates are spent in... | |
| Elliot G. Storke - 1859 - 832 Seiten
...better than take the worthy Mentor for our text, and from it address our remarks. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his nose...makes a lean will," and " Many estates are spent in getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting."... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 Seiten
...these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all...a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. " Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you -will not then have so much cause to complain of... | |
| Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1860 - 360 Seiten
...if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as6 he gets, ' keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last.' 7 ' A fat kitchen makes a lean will,'3 as poor Richard says ; and, ' Many estates are spent in the... | |
| 1860 - 544 Seiten
...man may, if he knows not how to save as lie gets, keep his nose all his lifo to the grind-stone aud die, not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will." In order then that mankind may leave a "fat" will, let his kitchen and himself bo like a " lean and... | |
| Elements - 1862 - 246 Seiten
...and chargeable families." "What maintains one vice would bring up two children." " A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all...a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will." The subject of frugality cannot be fully appreciated without considering the ruin wrought by extravagance.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 Seiten
...these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all...worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean icill. " Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not then hare so much cause to complain... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 Seiten
...these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and dic not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. "Away, then, with your expensive follics,... | |
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