 So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own 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,...  Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth - Page 7by Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1860 - 360 pages
...if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as6 he gets, ' keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last.' 7 ' A fat kitchen makes a lean will,'3 as poor Richard says ; and, ' Many estates are spent in the... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1860 - 544 pages
...man may, if he knows not how to save as lie gets, keep his nose all his lifo to the grind-stone aud die, not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will." In order then that mankind may leave a "fat" will, let his kitchen and himself bo like a " lean and... | |
 | Elements - Success - 1862 - 246 pages
...and chargeable families." "What maintains one vice would bring up two children." " A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all...a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will." The subject of frugality cannot be fully appreciated without considering the ruin wrought by extravagance.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...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...worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean icill. " Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not then hare so much cause to complain... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...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 dic not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. "Away, then, with your expensive follics,... | |
 | Henry Stevens - 1862 - 482 pages
...Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly fuccefsl.ul. A Man may, if he knows not how to fave as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, :MU1 die not worth -A Groat at laft. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard fays ; and, Many... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 pages
...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...at last." " A fat kitchen makes a lean will ;" and, " If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting : the Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to s^ve as he gets, " keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a eroal at last."* " A fat kitchen makes a lean will]" as poor Richard says j and, . . " Many estates... | |
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