 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...passions create. — Burton. DCLTX. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin, DCLX.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ton more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress thr frst desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly foil}' for the poor to ape... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...worse and more terrible than a lie : for ; / «n excuse is a lie guarded. — Pope. J DCXLVIII. muit buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the firat desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.— Fraxkli*. DCLX. It... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Cookery - 1857 - 730 pages
...consult, consult your purse. 3500. Pride is as lond a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. 3501. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. 3502. Yessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep the shore. 3503. Pride that shines... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Christian life - 1857 - 274 pages
...is angry with his sheep, he sends them a blind guide. When the horse Is stolen, you shut the door. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more to correspond with it. When you obey your superior, you instruct your inferior. Where ignorance is... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Cooking - 1858 - 454 pages
...your purse." 861. AND again, " Pride is as loud s beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy." 862. WHEN you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...Poor Dick says, "It is easier to suppress the first desiitf than to satisfy all that follow it ;" and it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich,... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...taking out of (pniser A) the 19 'and with a great deal more meal-tub, without putting any- sauciness.' fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ;l but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress2 the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - Agriculture - 1859 - 832 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... | |
 | Americans - 1859 - 80 pages
...dry, they know the worth of water. If you would know the value of money, go and try and borrow some. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Lying rides upon debt's back. It is hard for an empty purse to stand upright. Creditors have better... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...and evil is from thee. — Cowper. 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 : it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. —... | |
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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. 
