Poor Richard's AlmanackU.S.C. Publishing Company, 1914 - 62 páginas |
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Página 8 - For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Página 18 - If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Página 19 - Master will do more Work than both his Hands; and again, Want of Care does us more Damage than Want of Knowledge; and again, Not to oversee Workmen, is to leave them your Purse open. Trusting too much to others...
Página 6 - Key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says.
Página 14 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late, must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night. While Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Página 8 - As Poor Richard says, gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever, while you live, expense is constant and certain; and 'Tis easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel, as Poor Richard says; so, Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
Página 5 - Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.
Página 34 - The good, or ill hap of a good, or ill Life. Is the good or ill Choice of a good or ill Wife.
Página 45 - ... think of Saving as well as of Getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes are greater than her Incomes.
Página 46 - Youth is pert and positive, age modest and doubting. So ears of corn, when young and light, stand bolt upright, but hang their heads when weighty, full and ripe.