Plain Directions on Domestic Economy: Showing Particularly what are the Cheapest, and Most Nourishing Articles of Food and Drink, and the Best Modes of Preparation |
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Page 15 - I never saw an oft-removed Tree, Nor yet an oft-removed Family, That throve so well as those that settled be. And again, Three Removes is as bad as a Fire; and again, Keep thy Shop, and thy Shop will keep thee; and again, If you would have your Business done, go; if not, send.
Page 15 - Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly successful. A Man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
Page 15 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Page 15 - If you would have your business done, go; if not, send. And again, He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. And again, The eye of a 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...
Page 14 - Industry need not wish as Poor Richard says, and He that lives upon Hope will die fasting. There are no Gains, without Pains ; then Help Hands, for I have no Lands, or if I have, they are smartly taxed.
Page 14 - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy. Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Page 14 - Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy...
Page 14 - He that hath a trade, hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour," as poor Richard says ; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. — If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, " At the •working man's house, hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 14 - A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Many, without labour, would live by their wits only, but they break for want of stock;" whereas industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect.
Page 16 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
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| Pealkiri | Plain Directions on Domestic Economy: Showing Particularly what are the Cheapest, and Most Nourishing Articles of Food and Drink, and the Best Modes of Preparation |
| Contributor | Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in the City of New York |
| Publisher | Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, 1821 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 juuli 2007 |
| Length | 16 pages |
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