 | English literature - 1777 - 756 pages
...more- in, foon comes to the bottom;" then] over, " Fools make feafts, and wife men as poor Dick fays, " When the well is dry, they know the worth of water." But this they might have known before, if they had taken his advice : " If you Ťat them." Here you are all got together at this fale... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...the getting of; they think " It is day, and will never be night;" that a little to be fpent out of fo much is not worth minding ; but " Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, foon comes to the bottom." as Poor Richard fays; and then, " When the well is dry, they know the worth... | |
 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, foon comes to the bottom |" then, a* poor Dick fays, " When the well is dry, they know the worth of water." But this they might have known before, if they had taken his advice : " If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow... | |
 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...they knew not the getting of; they think " It is day, and •will never benight:" that a little to be spent out of so much, is not worth minding; but "...Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting inrf soc comes to the bottom," as Poor Richard says; ^id then, " When the well is dry, they know the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...the getting of; they think " It is day, and will never be night:" that a little to be fpent out of fo much is not worth minding; but " Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, foon comes to the bottom," as Poor Richard fays; and then, " When the well is dry, they know the worth... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...the getting of; they think " it is day.arul will never be night :" that a little to be fpentoutof fo much is not worth minding; but " Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, foon comes to the bottom," as Poor Richard fays; and then, " When the well is dry, they know tht worth... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1802 - 348 pages
...taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, foon comes to the bottom," as Poor Richard fays; and then, " When the well is dry, they know the worth of water." But this they might have known before, if they had taken his advice. " If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...and a fool,' as poor Richard says, 'imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can never be spent ; but, always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom ; then, as poor Dick says, ' When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.' But this they might... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, you soon come to the bottom;" then, as poor Dick says, "When the well is dry, they know the worth of water." But this they might have known before, if they had taken his advice : " If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow... | |
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Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom, as Poor Richard says; and then, When the well is dry, they know the worth of water. But this they might have known before, if they had taken his advice. If you would know... 
