Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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... a great deal more saucy . When you have bought one fine thing , you must buy ten more , that your ap- pearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Diek says , It is easier to suppress the first desire 10 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN .
... a great deal more saucy . When you have bought one fine thing , you must buy ten more , that your ap- pearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Diek says , It is easier to suppress the first desire 10 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN .
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Benjamin Franklin. 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 ...
Benjamin Franklin. 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 ...
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... old one a little longer . Reader , if thou wilt do the same , thy profit will be as great as mine . I am , as ever , thine to serve thee , VOL . II . - 2 RICHARD SAUNDERS . ON TRUE HAPPINESS . THE desire of happiness in general ESSAYS . 13.
... old one a little longer . Reader , if thou wilt do the same , thy profit will be as great as mine . I am , as ever , thine to serve thee , VOL . II . - 2 RICHARD SAUNDERS . ON TRUE HAPPINESS . THE desire of happiness in general ESSAYS . 13.
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... desire it , but under the appearance of an ima- ginary good . Many things we indulge ourselves in may be con- sidered by us as evils , and yet be desirable ; but then they are only considered as evils in their effects and consequences ...
... desire it , but under the appearance of an ima- ginary good . Many things we indulge ourselves in may be con- sidered by us as evils , and yet be desirable ; but then they are only considered as evils in their effects and consequences ...
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... desires . The passions , by being too much conversant with earthly objects , can never fix in us a proper com- posure and acquiescence of mind . Nothing but an indifference to the things of this world , an entire submission to the will ...
... desires . The passions , by being too much conversant with earthly objects , can never fix in us a proper com- posure and acquiescence of mind . Nothing but an indifference to the things of this world , an entire submission to the will ...
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