| Advice - 1848 - 72 pages
...casualties to which 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 - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...little care about a horse-shoe nail. " 3. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business. But to these we must add frugality,...grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 pages
...for want of care about a horse-shoe nail. " So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business ; but to these we must add frugality,...industry more certainly successful. A man may, if be knows not how to save as he gets, ' keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth... | |
| William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...of care about a horse-shoe nail. •• S i much for industry, my friends, and attention to otu-'s own business ; but to these we must add frugality,...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 his life to the grindstone, and... | |
| 1853 - 446 pages
...little care about a horse-shoe nail. "III. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business : but to these we must add frugality,...would make our industry more certainly successful. ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men... | |
| James William Gilbart - Language and languages - 1854 - 428 pages
...of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. " So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business ; but to these we must add frugality,...grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ;' and, " ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...little care about a horse-shoe nail. „III. 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 successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save äs he gets, „keep his nose all his life to the... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...for want of care about a horse-shoe nail.' So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business ; but to these we must add frugality,...and die not worth a groat at last.' ' A fat kitchen makes a lean will,' as poor Richard says , and, 1 Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1856 - 590 pages
...little care about a horse-shoe nail. "III. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality,...grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...a little care about a horseshoe nail. "Ш. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business ; but to these we must add frugality...the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. Л fat kitchen makes a lean will ; and Many estates arc spent in the getting, Since irvtnen for tea... | |
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