 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1846 - 296 pages
...promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse forever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound...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 - 1846 - 250 pages
...shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that aflect a man's credit are to he regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard hy a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; hut if he sees you at a hilliard- tahle, or hears... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 292 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...creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if lie sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends... | |
 | M.E.T. - 1848 - 300 pages
...credit are to biregardcd. — Thé sound of the hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, héard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or héars your voice at a tavern, whén you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day, and... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...promised it, 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...voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he eends for his money next day, demands it before he can receive it in a lump. "It shows besides that... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1851 - 518 pages
...TRADESMAN. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit arc to be regarded.—The sound of the hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor makes him easy months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...of half an inch, owing to the relaxation of the cartilages. CREDIT. THE most tiifling 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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...what they owe to one another. — Cicero. CREDIT, EASILY AFFECTED. — 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 wor,k, he sends for his money... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1853 - 906 pages
...of business, in all avocations, character in the long run is the best capital. Says Poor Kichard, " The sound of your hammer, at five in the morning, or nine in the night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy for six months longer ; but if he sees you at the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse forever. 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... | |
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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... 
