 Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand ; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.  Sunlit Days - Side 1911915 - 392 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 sider
...to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your...three, and not a hundred or a thousand ; instead of amillion count half a-dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping... | |
 | 1877 - 832 sider
...extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I gay, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand ; instead of amillion count half a-dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 sider
...yourself into a character : you must hammer and forge yourself one. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your...count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. JOHN B. GOUGH (1817-1886) Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls. A man's enemies... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 sider
...living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. WAUW.PJ*. as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand ;...a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail WALDEN, p. 99"Plain living The nation itself is just such an thinking." unwieldy and overgrown establishment,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 336 sider
...to count more than his ten f1ngers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your...hundred or a thousand ; instead of a million count half-a-dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nails. . . . The nation itself, with all its so-called... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1890 - 340 sider
...to count more than his ten r1ngers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, 237 and not a hundred or a thousand ; instead of a million count half-a-dozen, and keep your accounts... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 608 sider
...braced for better work and better living. " Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity, " he reiterates : " I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not...count half a dozen; and keep your accounts on your thumbnail." He was a poet too, through and through, but lacked the perfect metrical gift. In this respect... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 684 sider
...braced for better work and better living. " Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity, " he reiterates : " I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not...count half a dozen; and keep your accounts on your thumbnail." He was a poet too, through and through, but lacked the perfect metrical gift. In this respect... | |
 | Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 sider
...to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases, he may add his ten toes and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity, I say, let your...count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. The intimacy with which he lived among the wild creatures of the woods is illustrated by... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 518 sider
...(Marcus Aurelins), 158, 150; The simplicity of the life of the happy man described (Cowper), 394 ; Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. . . . Simplify, simplify (Thoreau), 463, Sincerity. — Candor. — Duplicity. — Prejudice : The... | |
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