Dollars and Sense, Or, How to Get on: The Whole Secret in a Nutshell |
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Dollars and Sense, Or How to Get on: The Whole Secret in a Nutshell P. t. Barnum No preview available - 2014 |
Dollars and Sense; Or, How to Get On, the Whole Secret in a Nutshell; P. T. Barnum,Selden R. Hopkins,Henry M. Hunt No preview available - 2022 |
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Page 111 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 198 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 58 - Many a man acquires a fortune by doing his business thoroughly, while his neighbor remains poor for life, because he only half does it.
Page 167 - And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things : but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Page 222 - ... service, may, in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be placed on the retired list of the Army with the rank and retired pay of one grade above that actually held by him at the time of retirement...
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Page 19 - This world is the best that we live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in ; But to beg, or to borrow, or get a man's own, 'Tis the very worst world, sir, that ever was known.
Page 435 - The substitution of paper in the room of gold and silver money, replaces a very expensive instrument of commerce with one much less costly, and sometimes equally convenient. Circulation comes to be carried on by a new wheel, which it costs less both to erect and to maintain than the old one.
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Page 102 - As an illustration, one morning a stout, heartylooking man came into my ticket-office and begged some money. I asked him why he did not work and earn his living? He replied that he could get nothing to do, and that he would be glad of any job at a dollar a day. I handed him a quarter of a dollar, told him to go and get his breakfast and return, and I would employ him, at light labor, at a dollar and a half a day. When he returned I gave him five common bricks. "Now...