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Sloth makes all Things difficult , but 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 ...
Sloth makes all Things difficult , but 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 ...
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Away then with your expensive Follies , and you will not have so much Cause to complain of hard Times , heavy Taxes , and chargeable Families ; for , as Poor Dick says , Women and Wine , Game and Deceit , Make the Wealth small , and the ...
Away then with your expensive Follies , and you will not have so much Cause to complain of hard Times , heavy Taxes , and chargeable Families ; for , as Poor Dick says , Women and Wine , Game and Deceit , Make the Wealth small , and the ...
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Would you not say will make poor - pitiful - sneaking Excuses , and by Degrees come to lose your Veracity , and sink into base downright Lying ; for , as Poor Richard says , The second Vice is Lying , the first is running in Debt .
Would you not say will make poor - pitiful - sneaking Excuses , and by Degrees come to lose your Veracity , and sink into base downright Lying ; for , as Poor Richard says , The second Vice is Lying , the first is running in Debt .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Colonial and Federalist American Writing Odyssey surveys of American writing |
| Authors | George F. Horner, Robert A. Bain |
| Editors | George F. Horner, Robert A. Bain |
| Publisher | Odyssey Press, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 946 pages |
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