 | Charles H. Kent - 1880 - 192 Seiten
...should place your standard high as to require great vigilance in living up to it." — Amos Laurence. "The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...nine at night, heard by a creditor makes him easy six mouths longer ; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 672 Seiten
...of hundreds in his immediate neighborhood, or that of ten times the number residing at a distance. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
 | Secrets - 1882 - 74 Seiten
...money an hour beyond the time promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. — The sound of the hammer at five in the morning or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1883 - 426 Seiten
...groat a day." 5. " Remember this saying, ' The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse.' " 6. " The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded." 7. "Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly." 8. " The way to wealth,... | |
 | Fortunate men - 1884 - 192 Seiten
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...him easy six months longer: but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - 1971 - 1530 Seiten
...is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. . . . The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
 | Edwin C. Sims - 1989 - 436 Seiten
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse forever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at flve in the moming or nine at night heard by a creditor makes him easy six months longer, but if he... | |
 | Roger G. Betsworth - 1990 - 220 Seiten
...has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides. Remember that credit is money. . . . The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or eight at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer, but if he sees you at a billiard... | |
 | Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - 1993 - 241 Seiten
...(or because of) the fact that Franklin frequently manipulated appearances. As he counseled one youth, "The Sound of your Hammer at Five in the Morning or...Creditor, makes him easy Six Months longer. But," Franklin warned, "if he sees you at a Billiard Table . . . when you should be at Work, he sends for... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 Seiten
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. 'The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or eight at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer,- but if he sees you at a billiard-table,... | |
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The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your... 
