 | Walter Channing - 1836 - 702 trang
...her credit. Truly, though quaintly, was it " said or sung " by Poor Richard, in days gone by, that " Many estates are spent in the getting Since women...knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." The best estate of every man lies in the powers of mind with which his Creator has endowed him. That... | |
 | 1832 - 220 trang
...his life to the grind stone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean [Fill;' and, ' Many estates are spent in the getting. Since...women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men (or punch forsook hewing and splitting.' If you would be wealthy think of saving, as well as of getting.... | |
 | 1833 - 336 trang
...life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ; " and 11 Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...forsook hewing and splitting. "If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. • The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 310 trang
...kitchen makes a lean will,' as poor Richard Bays; and, <Wany estates are spent In the gettmg ; fiince women for tea forsook spinning and knitting And men..." ' If you would be wealthy, (says he, in another Ahuanac) think of saving, as well as of getting: the Indies have not made Spain rich, because her out.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 312 trang
...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,' as poor Richard says ;...spent in the getting ; Since women for tea forsook spianing and knitting. And men for punch furgook hewing and splitting.' " ' If you would he wealthy,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 206 trang
...;' and, ' Many estates are spent in £euinc, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting Ami men for punch forsook hewing and splitting ' ' If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1835 - 262 trang
...not worth a ' groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;" and, " Many estates are spent in tho getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and...forsook hewing and splitting." If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as ot getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich because her outgoes are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 584 trang
...all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. Jl fat kitchen makes a lean will; and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...forsook hewing and splitting. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 584 trang
...all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. Jl fat kitchen makes a lean will ; and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And mrn for punch forsook hewing and splittitig. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1839 - 246 trang
...he gets, " k- rp his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die no[ worth a groat at last." "A fat kitchen makes a lean will," as poor Richard says ;...the getting ; Since women for tea forsook spinning und knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting."' " If you would be wealthy, (says he,... | |
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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, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes... 
