 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...  Laconics, Or The Best Words of the Best Authors - 127 ページ1856全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1878 - 384 ページ
...you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. 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, says " Poor Richard," heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he see you at a... | |
 | Phebe Lankester - 1880 - 270 ページ
...shut up your friend's purse for ever. " The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to bo regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the...your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, ho sends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. " It shows, besides,... | |
 | 1880 - 234 ページ
...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 of your...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... | |
 | Charles H. Kent - 1880 - 192 ページ
...require great vigilance in living up to it." — Amos Laurence. "The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your...nine at night, heard by a creditor makes him easy six mouths longer ; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 672 ページ
...neighborhood, or that of ten times the number residing at a distance. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your...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... | |
 | Secrets - 1882 - 74 ページ
...ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. — The sound of the hammer at five in the morning or nine at night, heard...:. but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears ryour voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day, and demands... | |
 | Fortunate men - 1884 - 192 ページ
...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 of your...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... | |
 | Thomas Alfred Davies - 1884 - 558 ページ
...promised, lest disappointment shut your friend's purse forever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your...him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at the billiard-table or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1884 - 154 ページ
...that enter into their souls." ' ' The most trifling actions,' says Benjamin Franklin, ' 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 , 9? by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 ページ
...painted clay. Cljaractee. — Franklin. fT1HE most trifling actions that affect a man's Credit are -L to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in...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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