 | Thomas Walker (poet.) - 1870 - 270 Seiten
...If you have bought a fine thing, you want ten more, That you may correspond behind and before. But it is easier to suppress the first desire, Than to satisfy all you may require ; And it is truly a folly for those that are poor To ape at the rich — of this I... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 Seiten
...loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more eaucy.' When yon have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a...as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' v I--I-1 - large may ventare more, Bat little boate should keep near shore.' It is, however, a folly... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 Seiten
...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...as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' Veetele large may venture more. Bat little boats should keep near shore.' It is, however, a folly... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 Seiten
...beggar as want, and a great ^ f-, deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, , ^ you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a...; but poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the 0 first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the... | |
 | 1874 - 648 Seiten
...have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that jonr appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the Devil's sin, and the Devil's ruin... | |
 | William Blanchard Jerrold - 1874 - 128 Seiten
...its grave. When you die, your trumpeter will be buried. WThen you have bought one fine thing you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece. When you have counted your cards, you'll find you have gained but little. When you have no observers,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 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... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 Seiten
...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. JEFFERSON. 1743-1826. Tfojmas Jefferson, of Virginia, third President of the United States, was a fine... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 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 ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. He that hath a trade,... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 Seiten
...very curse : Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.4 When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece. And 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. 
