When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.


Works: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition... (ed. 1836)

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring,...

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring,...

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring,...

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring,...