 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...consult your purse." And again, " pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow jt:" and it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 424 pages
...consult your purse." And again, " Pride is as loud a befgar as Want, " and a great deal more saucy." Wheu you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. " Vessels large may venture more, " But little boats... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...purse." And again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have got one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a-piece ; but Poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...consult, consult your purse." And again, "Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that yourappearance may be all of a piece; but poor Dick says, *' It is easier to suppress the first desire,... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...consult your purse.** And again, " pride is as loud a beggar as want, and' a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Djck says, " it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it : * and it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...consult, consult your purse. And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, // is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly folly... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1819 - 520 pages
...consult, consult your purse. And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the Jirst desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the... | |
 | Charities - 1819 - 384 pages
...To guard against their commencement is therefore all important. ' It is easier, says Poor Richard, ' to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' " The true art of saving will be found to consist in the cultivation of moderate wishes, and in the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...lond a beggar as want, and a great deal more sancy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must bny ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may venture more, But little boats... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...dress is sure a very curse : Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.' And again, ' pride iť as lond a beggar as want, and a great deal more sancy.' When...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. * Vessels large may venture more, But little boats... | |
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When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. 
