 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 449 pages
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, " lie 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, retur,n, and continue... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1818 - 421 pages
...his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim that I had learned, which says, ' he that has once done you a kindness, will be more ready...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 - 1818
...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 ready...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 - 1818 - 449 pages
...another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, " Ik that has once done yon 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... | |
 | 1826 - 407 pages
...ever afterwards acted as his friend. ' He that has once done you a kindness,' says our philosopher, ' will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.' • Bradford, Franklin's competitor in the publication of a newspaper, being deprived of his office... | |
 | 1826 - 407 pages
...ever afterwards acted as his friend. ' He that has once done you a kindness,' says our philosopher, ' will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.' Bradford, Franklin's competitor in the publication of a newspaper, being deprived of his office of... | |
 | 1829
...profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings. He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you have yourself obliged." This anecdote is rich in hints for those educating youth. ' 16 PATIENCE IN... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - 1836 - 334 pages
...instance," observes Franklin, " of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, ' He that has 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,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1839 - 307 pages
...that it furnished him with 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 ; and wisely adds, what all young persons would do well to adopt as a rule, "... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840
...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 ready...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,... | |
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He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. 
