 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...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 not worth...a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;" andi " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...our injlus*»y more certainly successful. A man may,ae knows not how to save as he gets, 'keep his nose all his life to the grind-stone, and die not...Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knit.tinS> And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting; " If you would... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...says; and, " Many estates are spent in the getting ; since women for tea, forsook spinning andknittin and men for punch forsook hewing and splitting "If you would be wealthy," says he, in anotr almanack, "think of saving, as well as of getting: t Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...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 not...Many estates are spent in the getting, " Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, " And men, for punch, forsook hewing and splitting." " If you... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...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 grind-stone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen mates a lean wilJ ;" and " Many estates are spent in the getting. Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...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 grind-stone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchiti makes a lean will; and " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...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 not worth...Many estates are spent in the getting Since women tor tea forsook spinning and knitting. And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." ' " If you... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 424 pages
...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 grind-stone, " and die not...groat at last." " A fat kitchen. " makes a lean will ;" " Many estntes are spent in the getting, " Since women for tea forsook spioning and knitting, "... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knmvs not how to save as he gets. " keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth...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... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...lean will," as poor Richard says ; and, " Many estates are spent in the getting ; since women for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsook...hewing and splitting." " If you would be wealthy," says he, in another almanack, "think of saving, as well as of getting: the Indies have not made Spain... | |
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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,... 
