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" Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.' And after all, of what use is this pride of appearance for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? It cannot promote health nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit... "
Lionel and Clarissa, by I. Bickerstaff. The toy shop; the king and the ... - Page 348
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Domestic and Rural Affairs: The Family, Farm and Gardens, and the Domestic ...

Elliot G. Storke - Agriculture - 1859 - 832 pages
...shore." It is, however, a folly soon punished ; for " Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt; pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty,...the person; it creates envy, it hastens misfortune. Generally speaking, we are very deficient in the practice of culinary economy. A French family would...
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The New School Reader

Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...as Poor Richard says : Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. Pride breakfasted with Pknty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy. And after...appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suiiered ? It can not promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person ;...
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Materials for French prose composition, or selections from the best English ...

Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1860 - 360 pages
...dines on6 vanity, sups on contempt,' as poor Richard says. And, in another place, ' Pride breakfasted6 with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.' And, after all, of what use is this pride of appearance,7 for which so much is risked, so much is suffered 1 It cannot promote health, or ease pain,...
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The Autobiography and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...for, " Pride that dinea on vanity, sups on contempt," as poor Richard says. And, in another place, " Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty,...risked, so much is suffered / It cannot promote health, or ease pain, it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortunes....
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Sunday readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. Carpenter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 pages
...folly soon punished; for, as Poor Richard says, 'Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt ; — Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty,...creates envy, it hastens misfortune. " But what madness it must be to run in debt for these superfluities ? We are offered, by the terms of this sale, six...
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Advice to youths about entering a commercial career

William H. Ablett - Commerce - 1867 - 94 pages
...however, a folly soon punished ; for, as poor Richard says, ' Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt; pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty,...envy, it hastens misfortune. " ' But what madness it must be to run in debt for these superfluities ! We are offered, by the terms oi this sale, six...
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My new-year's gift to my son [comprising Pamphilius, Economy of life and ...

Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 pages
...folly soon punished ; for " Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt." And, in another place, " Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty,...risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, or ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortune....
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Materials for French prose composition, or selections from the best English ...

Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1869 - 382 pages
...dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.' And, after all, of what use is this pride of appearance,7 for which so much is risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, or ease pain, it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy ;3 it hastens misfortune....
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...for, as Poor Richard says, ' Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt ; Pride breakfasted'-with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.'...creates envy, it hastens misfortune. " But what madness it must be to run in debt for these superfluities ! We are offered by the terms of this sale, six months'...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...a folly soon punished ; for, as Poor Richard says, ' Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt ; ure a noble anchor I Adieu, dear, amiable youth ! Your heart mates no increase of merit in the person, it creates envy, it hastens misfortune. " But wha,t madness...
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