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,... Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know - Page 152by Robert Kemp Philp - 1858 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Kemp Philp - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1856 - 372 pages
...if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and dienot worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen, makes a lean...are spent in getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." 849. If YOU WOULD RE WEALTHY,... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...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...at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ; ' and, ' Bluny estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...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. Л fat kitchen makes a lean will ; and Many estates arc spent in the getting, Since irvtnen for tea... | |
| James William Gilbart - Language and languages - 1857 - 416 pages
...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 lean will ;' and, " ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and... | |
| James William Gilbart - Language and languages - 1857 - 416 pages
...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 lean will ;' and, " ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and... | |
| William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...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...groat at last.' 'A fat kitchen makes a lean will,' as poor Richard says ; and ' Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...industry more certainly snccessful. 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 kiteIten makes a lean will. "Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not then have so... | |
| Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as0 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,'8 as poor Richard says ; and, ' Many estates are spent in... | |
| Elliot G. Storke - Agriculture - 1859 - 832 pages
...and from it address our remarks. 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...are spent in getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." If you would be wealthy, think... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...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 a lean will. " Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you -will not then have so much cause to complain of... | |
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