| Laconics - 1829 - 358 Seiten
...DCLIX. 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...be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the fint desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.—Franklin. DCLX. It is certainly a mistake in the... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 Seiten
...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 all that follow it:' And... | |
| 1833 - 336 Seiten
..."pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine tiling, 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 ; "... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 206 Seiten
...again, ' Pride is as loud a beggar an 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 all that follow it. And... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1835 - 262 Seiten
...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 apiece; but poor Dick says, "it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 584 Seiten
...again, Pride is as loiul 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 all that follow it. And... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 584 Seiten
...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. And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1837 - 356 Seiten
..., ' 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 all that follow it.' And... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 342 Seiten
...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 all that follow it.' And... | |
| Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 Seiten
...necessaries. Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets, put out the kitchen fire, as poor Richard says. 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 ox.... | |
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