 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;" andi " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." " If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...to the grind-stone, and die not worth a groat at last. ' A fat kitchen makes a lean will ;' and, ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knit.tinS> And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting; " If you would be wealthy, think of saving,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...grindstone, and d not worth a groat at last." "A fat kitchen mak a lean will," as poor Richard says; and, " Many estates are spent in the getting ; since women for tea, forsook spinning andknittin and men for punch forsook hewing and splitting "If you would be wealthy," says he, in anotr... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...life, to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ;" and " Many estates are spent in the getting, " Since women,...And men, for punch, forsook hewing and splitting." " If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...life to the grind-stone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchiti makes a lean will; and " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." " If yon would be wealthy, think of saving, as well a$ of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...life to the grind-stone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen mates a lean wilJ ;" and " Many estates are spent in the getting. Since women...knitting. And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." * If jou would be wealthy, think of saving, as; well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...and die not worth a groat at last." " A fat kitchen makes a lean will," as poor Richard says ; and, " Many estates are spent in the getting ; since women...knitting, and men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." " If you would be wealthy," says he, in another almanack, "think of saving, as well as of getting:... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...last." A fat kitchen makes a lean will ; and, " Many estates are spent in the getting Since women tor tea forsook spinning and knitting. And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." ' " If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...makec a lean vi 111," as poor Rkhard says j and, " Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women forsook spinning .and knitting, And men for punch , forsook hewing and splitting." " If you would be wealthy, (says he, in another Almahack,) think of saving, as well ait of getting... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat, kitchen makes a lean will; and, Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And nun for punch forsook hewing and splitting. ; If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of... | |
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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, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes... 
