 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - Young men - 1836 - 200 pages
...prosper even in his worldly business. " The most trifling actions," it was well said by Franklin, " that can affect a man's credit are to be regarded....the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, will make him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Autobiographical memory - 1837 - 356 pages
...promised, lest a 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 96 pages
...disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling aetions that affeet a man's eredit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a ereditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...destroyed by intemperate diet. — Burton. CREDIT.— The most trifling actions that affect a man'l credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table,... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friends' purse for ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...promised, lest a 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 624 pages
...promised, lest a 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...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... | |
 | 1840 - 494 pages
...that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of the hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes 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... | |
 | 1842 - 194 pages
...promised, lest a 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...billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should he at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. It... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...promised', lest a 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 live in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but... | |
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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 a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your... 
