 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;" andi " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for 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 rich,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...not how to save as he gets, 'keep his nose all his life 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... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...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 ;" and " Many estates are spent in the getting, " Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, " And men, for punch, forsook hewing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchiti makes 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 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
...die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen mates a lean wilJ ;" and " Many estates are spent in the getting. Since women for tea forsook spinning and...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
...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 and...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
...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 ; and, " Many estates are spent in the getting Since women tor tea forsook spinning and knitting. And men for punch forsook hewing and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Ely - Readers - 1817 - 124 pages
...yourself. Handle your tools without mittins. Acat in gloves catches no mice. Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women for tea forsook spinning and...; And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. 35. If you would be rich, think of saving, as well as earning. A penny saved is as good as a penny... | |
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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 a lean Will, as Poor Richard says;... 
