| Charles H. Kent - 1880 - 192 trang
...vigilance in living up to it." — Amos Laurence. "The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five...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 trang
...ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. — 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 - 1884 - 558 trang
...disappointment shut your friend's purse forever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five...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 - 1884 - 154 trang
...their souls." ' ' The most trifling actions,' says Benjamin Franklin, ' that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your 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... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 trang
...Importance of. The moat trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of year hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard...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... | |
| 1888 - 748 trang
...disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five...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... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1889 - 510 trang
...reckon that the only expense ; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides. " The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or...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... | |
| 1891 - 556 trang
...Shakespeare. The most trifling actions that affect a man's iredit are to be regarded. The sound of vour hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, make him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you ni a Billiard table, or hears your voice at a... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 trang
...Deecher. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of vour hammer at five in the morning or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him eiisv six months longer ; but if he sees you nt a hilliard-tiible, or hears your voice at a tavern,... | |
| Katharine Schuyler Baxter - 1897 - 666 trang
...and so on, until it becomes a hundred pounds. " The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning or nine at night, heard by creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your... | |
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