 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 voice...  The Detroit Journal Year-book - Page 251888Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...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 hammer at five in the...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... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Agriculture - 1846 - 178 pages
...ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. — The sound of a tool at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that aflect a man's credit are to he regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard hy a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; hut if he sees you at a hilliard- tahle, or hears... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 292 pages
...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 hammer at five in the...creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if lie sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends... | |
 | M.E.T. - 1848 - 300 pages
...credit are to biregardcd. — Thé sound of the hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, héard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or héars your voice at a tavern, whén you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...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 hammer at five in the...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 eends for his money... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1851 - 518 pages
...TRADESMAN. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit arc to be regarded.—The sound of the hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor makes him easy months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...reckless of his reputation. Franklin. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer, at five in the...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...shut up your friend's purse forever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the...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... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1853 - 906 pages
...of business, in all avocations, character in the long run is the best capital. Says Poor Kichard, " The sound of your hammer, at five in the morning, or nine in the night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy for six months longer ; but if he sees you at the... | |
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