 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...beggar as Want ; and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy many more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick suys, " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." And it is as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 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...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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...conveniently converse with him, and he may the more readily assist her, in case of accident. Varieties. 1. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more ; so that your appearance may all be of a piece. 2. Miraculous evidence, is inefficacious for producing... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...conveniently converse with him, and he may the more readily assist her, in case of accident. Varieties. 1. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more; so that your appearance may all be of a piece. 2. Miraculous evidence, is inefficacious for producing... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 292 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...desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And it is ai truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. 'Vessels... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 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...that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Richard says, It is easier to THE SLAVERY OF DEBT. • 215 suppress the first desire, than to satisfy... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 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 your appearance may "o •M« -;•!« <*= iH*i •»*}! •.!*pr .l-..' be all of a piece; but poor Dick says, "it la... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 322 pages
...consult, consult your purae. 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 your appearance may be all of a piece ; hut poor Dick says, 'It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.'... | |
 | 1851 - 112 pages
...money, go and try and borrow some. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more sancy. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. Pride breakfasts with plenty, dines with poverty, and... | |
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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. 
