On the road to riches, or, How to succeed in lifeWabash Publishing House, 1893 - 377 trang |
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Trang 341 - ... telegraph, telephone, and cable companies (whether wire or wireless) engaged in sending messages from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, to any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or to any foreign country...
Trang 137 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to 'market. It depe'nds chiefly on two words, industry and frugality ; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Trang 327 - New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Trang 169 - I have had in my life may fairly be attributed more to the public press than to nearly all other causes combined. There may possibly be occupations that do not require advertising, but I cannot well conceive what they are. Men in business will sometimes tell you that they have tried advertising, and that it did not pay. This is only when advertising is done sparingly and grudgingly.
Trang 342 - Dominion, or any provincial or municipal government, or for charitable purposes, or to or from fairs and expositions for exhibition thereat...
Trang 252 - Shalt show us how divine a thing A Woman may be made. Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave ; But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave.
Trang 251 - Remember always that labor is one of the conditions of our existence. Time is gold: throw not one minute away, but place each one to account. Do unto all men as you would be done by.
Trang 354 - A Consul is a person commissioned to reside in a foreign country, as an agent or representative of a government, to protect the rights, commerce, merchants, and seamen of the State, and to aid in any commercial, and sometimes in diplomatic transactions, with such foreign country.
Trang 251 - Never covet what is not your own. Never think any matter so trifling as not to deserve notice. Never give out that which does not first come in. Never spend but to produce. Let the greatest order regulate the transactions of your life. Study in your course of life to do the greatest amount of good. Deprive yourself of nothing necessary to your comfort, but live in an honorable simplicity and frugality. Labor, then, to the last moment of your existence.
Trang 232 - The first day I did nothing but stand at the door and look pouty at the green store, and my friend Blake stood on his steps looking ditto at me. As people came in, I commenced running down the green store, and Blake always...