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" 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 Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer - Page 277
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The complete works ... of ... Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3

Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...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 at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money .the next day; demands it before he can receive it in a Jump....
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The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the ..., Volume 3

Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...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 at a tavern, when you ^hould be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump....
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The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes 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 next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump....
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The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes 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 next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump....
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Annual Register, Volume 35

Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 758 pages
...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 at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day. Finer clothes than he or his wife wears, or...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...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 at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump....
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The American Preceptor Improved: Being a New Selection of Lessons for ...

African Americans - 1826 - 238 pages
...morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer. 8. Hut 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 the next day, and demands it before he can receive it in...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...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 at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day; nd3 ft before he can receive it in a lump....
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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 at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day: demand8 it before he can receive it in a lump....
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The golden rules of life; or, Every body's friend

Golden rules - 1835 - 44 pages
...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 at a tavern when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day. — Franklin. Justice. — Oppress not the...
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