 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 trang
...Poor Dick says, "tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.' And 'tis as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. "Great estates may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore." K Tis, however, a folly... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 318 trang
...Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And 'Us as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. * f Great estates may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. Tis, however, a folly... | |
 | 1907 - 668 trang
...but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. And it 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 should keep near shore. It is, however, a folly soon... | |
 | 1907 - 374 trang
...Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And 'tis as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. Great estates may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. 'Tis, however, a folly soon... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 426 trang
...a-sorrowing' ; 95 and, indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it again. "It is as truly folly for -the poor to ape the rich,...as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. After all, this pride of appearance can not promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no 100 increase... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 428 trang
...know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing'; "It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich,...as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. After all, this pride of appearance can not promote health, nor ease pain; it makes no 100 increase... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 trang
...Dick says, " 'tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." And 'tis as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich as for the frog to swell ill order to equal the ox. " Great estates may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1910 - 216 trang
...but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. And it 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 should keep near shore. It is, however, a folly soon... | |
 | 1910 - 272 trang
...Dick says, ' Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And 'tis as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. Great estate! may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. 'T is, however, a folly soon... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1911 - 446 trang
...but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. And it 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 must keep near shore. It is, however, a folly soon... | |
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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 ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy... 
