 | Benjamin Franklin - Almanacs, American - 1900 - 190 pages
...; for " Pride that dines 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 misfortune.... | |
 | Literature - 1900 - 424 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,...which so much is risked, so much is suffered ? It can not promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 460 pages
...pride of appearance, 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; it hastens misfortune. < What is a butterfly ? at best, He's but a caterpillar dress'd; The gaudy fop's his picture just.'... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...; for " pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt," as Poor Richard says. And in another place, " pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty,...after all, of what use is this pride of appearance, foi which so much is risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health or ease pain ; it makes... | |
 | David Excelmons Cloyd - Biography & Autobiography - 1902 - 126 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,...person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortune. what you do when you run in debt ; to give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Biography - 1902 - 518 pages
...as Poor RICHARD says. And in another place, Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined .with Pcra. erty, and supped .with Infamy. And, after all, of what use...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!... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 pages
...rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. After all, this pride of appearance can not promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no increase...merit in the person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortunes. 17. " But what madness it must be to run in debt for superfluities ! Think what you do... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1903 - 600 pages
...for, ' Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt,' as poor Richard says. And, in another place, ' Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty,...person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortune. 'What is a butterfly? at best, He's but a caterpillar dress'd; The gaudy fop's his picture just,' as... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1903 - 402 pages
...! for Pride that dines •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 misfortune... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 pages
...for ' ' pride that dines 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 misfortune.... | |
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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... 
