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
| Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 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...groat at last.' 'A fat kitchen makes a lean will,' as poor Richard says; and, 'Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 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...getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.' ' If you would be wealthy, think of saving,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Ells - 1778 - 392 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 die uot worth a groat at last — a fat kitchen makes a lean will;" and "Many estates are spent in the... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 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 FRUGALITY. 213 die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and — Many estates... | |
| Advice - 1848 - 72 Seiten
...human nature, in every situation of life, is liable. As an American writer says, "A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life at the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last." If you would be wealthy, says the same writer,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 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...getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.' " ' If you would be wealthy, think of saving,... | |
| William Chambers - 1853 - 858 Seiten
...these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A m¡m may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, 'keep his nose all...groat at last.' < A fat kitchen makes a lean will,' as poor Richard says ; and, 'Many entâtes are »pent in the getting; Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 Seiten
...these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if be knows not how to save as he gets, ' keep his nose...grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last.' ' A fal kitchen makes a lean will,' as poor Richard says : and, * Many estates are spent in the getting... | |
| 1853 - 446 Seiten
...business : but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for drink forsook hewing and splitting.' ' If you would be wealthy, think of saving... | |
| James William Gilbart - 1854 - 428 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...getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.' If you would be wealthy, think of saving... | |
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