 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
 | Thomas Alfred Davies - Business - 1884 - 558 pages
...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 hammer at five in the...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 - Boys - 1884 - 154 pages
...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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pages
...Importance of. The moat trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of year hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard...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... | |
 | German Americans - 1888 - 748 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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 510 pages
...reckon that the only expense ; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides. " The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or...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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...Shakespeare. The most trifling actions that affect a man's iredit are to be regarded. The sound of vour hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, make him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you ni a Billiard table, or hears your voice at a... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...Deecher. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of vour hammer at five in the morning or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him eiisv six months longer ; but if he sees you nt a hilliard-tiible, or hears your voice at a tavern,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Almanacs, American - 1900 - 190 pages
...shut up your friend's purse for evef?\ 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 billiardtable or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the... | |
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