 | William Chambers - 1858 - 378 trang
...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...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1858 - 454 trang
...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 ten more, that your appearance...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 - 1858 - 362 trang
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 80 trang
...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 trang
...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. —... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 trang
...little boats should keep near shore." And qualified himself to pen such maxims as the following : — " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." " It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1861 - 304 trang
...little boats should keep near shore." And qualified himself to pen such maxims as the following : — " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." " It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 trang
...have bwi.-! ' one fine thing, you must buy ten mere, th yuur appearance may be all of a piece ; bu: : is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. /re»Hi«. Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of »I1 РВЕОЖ... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 trang
...again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one tine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance...suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that foliow it." And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to... | |
 | 1865 - 138 trang
...little boats should keep near shore." And qualified himself to pen such maxims as the following:— " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." " It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
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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. 
