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" Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six; turned again it is seven and threepence ; and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there... "
Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Memoirs of His Early Life - Page 167
by Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 274 pages
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...turned again it is seven and threepence ; and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces, every turning, so that...that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. — Franklin. MONEY AND TIME. — Money and time are the heaviest burthens of life, and the unhappiest...
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Chambers's Information for the People: A Popular Encyclopedia, Volume 2

William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...offspring to the thousandth generation. Ни that murders a crown destroys all that it might have producid, even scores of pounds. •• Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a ifiy. For this little sum (which maybe daily wasted cither in time or expense, unperceived)...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...turned again it is seven and threepence ; and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that...profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breed' ing sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys...
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Library of American History: Containing Biographical Sketches, of Washington ...

Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...again, it is seven and threepence ; and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that throws away a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. Remember that...
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Worth and Wealth: A Collection of Maxims, Morals and Miscellanies for ...

Freeman Hunt - Business & Economics - 1856 - 500 pages
...again it is seven and 4 three pence, and so on till it becomes an hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that...of pounds. Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. For this little sum (which may be daily wasted either in time or expense unperceived)...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 2

Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...turned again it is seven and threepence ; and so on till it becomes an hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that...that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. — FrankUa. DLXXXVIL It would be an endless task to mention the innumerable shifts that small wits...
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...turned again it is seven and threepence ; and so on till it becomes an hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that...that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. — Franklin, DLXXXVII. It would be an endless task to mention the innumerable shirts that small wits...
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Readings for Young Men, Merchants, and Men of Business

Business - 1859 - 188 pages
...turned again it is seven and- three pence: and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that...produced, even scores of pounds. Remember that six pounds a-year is but a groat a-day. For this little sum (which may be daily wasted either in time or expense,...
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The historical, biographical and poetical reader; or, Scholar's companion

John Laurie Blake - 1862 - 236 pages
...man has good and large credit, and makes good use of it. quicker. He that kills a breeding animal, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation,...— even scores of pounds. Remember that six pounds a-year is but a groat a-day. For this little sum (which may be daily wasted either in time or expense,...
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Grammar of English grammars; or Advanced manual of English grammar and language

Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 pages
...turned again, it is seven and threepence ; and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that...kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to tiie thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even...
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