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... received , never men- tioning the thousands and thousands of unfortu- nate ones who also put their hard - earned money into the same hopper and for which they never re- ceive a single dollar . Why have not they investi- 34 A POUND OF ...
... received , never men- tioning the thousands and thousands of unfortu- nate ones who also put their hard - earned money into the same hopper and for which they never re- ceive a single dollar . Why have not they investi- 34 A POUND OF ...
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... received a letter from the eastern bank asking what disposition he wished to make of the money still in their hands , which had now grown to the snug little sum of SEVENTY - TWO DOLLARS . This lit- tle five - dollar bill , at 21⁄2 to 3 ...
... received a letter from the eastern bank asking what disposition he wished to make of the money still in their hands , which had now grown to the snug little sum of SEVENTY - TWO DOLLARS . This lit- tle five - dollar bill , at 21⁄2 to 3 ...
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... received the same from Hezekiah Hardup , or whatever his name may be , for inspection , and agree to return the same within , say , five days , or loan the re- quired amount . Should you conclude to make the loan , deposit the security ...
... received the same from Hezekiah Hardup , or whatever his name may be , for inspection , and agree to return the same within , say , five days , or loan the re- quired amount . Should you conclude to make the loan , deposit the security ...
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... receiving a full price for your vacant lot and free rent , besides making a HANDSOME PROFIT . The party from whom you purchased was handicapped , the mortgage preventing him from turning . Now he has a clear lot and a little cash ; he ...
... receiving a full price for your vacant lot and free rent , besides making a HANDSOME PROFIT . The party from whom you purchased was handicapped , the mortgage preventing him from turning . Now he has a clear lot and a little cash ; he ...
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... received for that kind of work , estimating about 25 or 30 cents each would be very low , and she informed me that she received 32 cents per dozen . I inquired of her what she could make per week , and she told me , in addition to ...
... received for that kind of work , estimating about 25 or 30 cents each would be very low , and she informed me that she received 32 cents per dozen . I inquired of her what she could make per week , and she told me , in addition to ...
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A Pound of Brains: Thirty Years' Observation of Horse Sense (1908) George M. Fadner No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 411 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 15 - I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 15 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 83 - Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait; Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock, unbidden, once at every gate. If sleeping, wake. If feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 34 - For men are prone to go it blind Along the calf-paths of the mind, And work away from sun to sun To do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, And out and in, and forth and back, And still their devious course pursue. To keep the path that others do.
Page 16 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 412 - 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 33 - Since then two hundred years have fled, And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise bell-wether sheep Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep. And drew the flock behind him, too, As good bell-wethers always do.
Page 18 - If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing...
Page 411 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife...