| Emily Taylor - Historical fiction - 1876 - 292 pages
...but dares not enter." And he tells young tradesmen to remember that " The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound...the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, keeps him easy sir months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a... | |
| Lay preaching - 1877 - 348 pages
...Conference by CA DAVIS, Chesterfield. JEWELS FOR SETTING. ACTION : ā THE most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound...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... | |
| Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...INDUSTRY. o c o 'o c '0 c 03 a in 3 'd C 3J 'VĀ« jNDUSTRY is the basis of reputation and credit. " The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night," said Benjamin Franklin, " heard by a creditor, will make him easy six months longer ; but if he sees... | |
| Edwin Troxell Freedley - Business - 1878 - 384 pages
...helped. If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound...your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, says " Poor Richard," heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he see you at a... | |
| John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 pages
...that away, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. Shakspeare. 8. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound...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... | |
| Phebe Lankester - 1880 - 270 pages
...shut up your friend's purse for ever. " The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to bo regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the...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, ho sends for his money... | |
| Charles H. Kent - Conduct of life - 1880 - 192 pages
...to require great vigilance in living up to it." ā Amos Laurence. "The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound...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... | |
| Secrets - 1882 - 74 pages
...ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. ā The sound of the hammer at five in the morning or nine at night, heard...easy six months longer :. but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears ryour voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
| Thomas Alfred Davies - Business - 1884 - 558 pages
...you promised, lest disappointment shut your friend's purse forever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound...him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at the billiard-table or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
| Andrew James Symington - Boys - 1884 - 154 pages
...irons that enter into their souls." ' ' The most trifling actions,' says Benjamin Franklin, ' that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound...hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard , 9? by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears... | |
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