 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1859 - 710 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, "He, that has once done you a kindness, will be more...you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged" And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 σελίδες
...his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, " He thai has once done you a kindness, will be more ready to...another, than he whom you yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1860 - 276 σελίδες
...remarks, that it furnished a new instance of the truth of a maxim, he learned when a boy, that he who has once done you a kindness, will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you have yourself obliged. He adds, what all young persons would do well to adopt as a rule, "how much... | |
 | World, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1870 - 822 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says,' He that has once done you a kindness will be more...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.' " And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, '•'•He that has once done you a kindness will...another, than he -whom you yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, "He that has once done you a kindness -will be more...another, than he whom you yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, “He that has once done you a kindness will be more...to do you another, than he whom you yourself have oblz¿ed.” And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return,... | |
 | James Ball (conveyancing clerk.) - 1878 - 208 σελίδες
...Franklin. To be sure he said a great many wise things—and I don't feel sure he didn't borrow this— he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so...paradox, uttered by my friend the Historian, in one of his flashing moments : " ' Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.'... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 σελίδες
...of the truth of an old THE DAWN OF PROSPERITY. I2 5 maxim I had learned, which says ' He that hath once done you a kindness will be more ready to do...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged,' and it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | 1880 - 348 σελίδες
...assistance of the pupils; it will awaken love for the teacher, which will'help in controlling the school. "He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom yourself have obliged." Children love to bring what powers they have into action; they are delighted... | |
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borrow this,—he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly !— " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered... 
