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" Today. If you were a Servant would you not be ashamed that a good Master should catch you idle? Are you then your own Master, be ashamed to catch yourself idle, as Poor Dick says. "
Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent ... - Page 146
by Elegant extracts - 1812
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The book of good devices, ed. by G. Golding

Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...to-morrows, as poor Richard says ; and, further, Never leave that till to-morrow what you can do today. If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that...master, be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is to be so much done for yourself, your family, your country, and your king. Handle your tools without...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable ...

Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1873 - 266 pages
...to-morrows," as poor Richard says; and farther, " never leave that till to-morrow, which you can do to-day." If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle ? Ar^you then your own master ? be ashamed to catch yourself idle when there is so much to be done...
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The First-[sixth] Reader: Of the United States Series; Embracing, in ..., Book 5

Marcius Willson - Readers - 1872 - 322 pages
...catch yourself 'idle, where there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country. 9. Handle your tools without mittens: remember that " the cat in gloves catches no mice." It is true there is much to be done, and, perhaps, you have none to help you; but work steadily, and...
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Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania: With the Incidental History of the ...

William Crawford Armor - Governors - 1874 - 634 pages
...while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and to keep. One to-day is worth two to-morrows. If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that...your own master? be ashamed to catch yourself idle. I never paw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as one that settled...
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First (-Sixth) illustrated reader

Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...tomorrow; "One to-day is worth two to-morrows;" and, farther, " Have you somewhat to do to-morrow, do it to day." " If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle ? If then you are your own master, be ashamed to catch yourself idle." When there is so much to be...
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Public Ledger Almanacs: For the Years 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875

Almanacs, American - 1870 - 684 pages
...to-morrows," as poor Richard says ; and farther, " Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day." If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Arc you, then, your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is so much to be done...
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The Onward reciter ed. by W. Darrah, Volume 4

William Darrah - 1875 - 200 pages
...for you know not how much you may be hindered to-morrow." Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, where there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, your country, and your God. There is much to be done, and, perhaps, you are weak-handed ; but stick to it steadily, and you...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...to-day is worth two to-morrows ;" and, farther, " Have you somewhat to do to-morrow ? Do it to-day." If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that...your own master? "Be ashamed to catch yourself idle," as Poor Dick says. When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, your country, be up...
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The Holborn Series of Reading Books. Instructive Reader

Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...as Poor Richard says ; and, further, ' Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.' " If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that...for yourself, your family, your country, and your fellow-men. Handle your tools without mittens ; remember that ' The cat in gloves catches no mice,'...
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How to get on

Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...to-morrows, as poor Richard says; and, further, Never leave that till to-morrow what you can do today. If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that...master, be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is to be so much done for yourself, your family, your country, and your king. Handle your tools without...
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