 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...  Select Pieces - Seite 9von Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...Dick lays, >cTis ea/ier to fupprefs the. firft De/ire, than to fatisfy all that follow it. And 'tis as truly Folly for the Poor to ape the Rich, as for the Frog to fwell in order to equal the Ox. Great 'Eftates may "venture more, But little Boats flwuld keep near... | |
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