 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 Seiten
...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. —... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 may be all of a...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 Seiten
...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 H. Ablett - 1867 - 94 Seiten
...want, and POOR RICHARD. 67 a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten -more, that your appearance may be all of...first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And is truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 Seiten
...his strength and contracting his capacities. — South. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. ' One vice,'... | |
 | Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 Seiten
...very curse : Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a...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... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 Seiten
...lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide And folly into sin ! " SCOTT. PP " It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." " For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter." BYRON. " Do... | |
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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. 
