| Charles Felton Pidgin - Americans - 1904 - 358 pages
...picture, just.' 'Tis, however, a folly soon punished, for pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty,...of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much suffered? It cannot promote health or ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates... | |
| American literature - 1904 - 496 pages
...in another place, Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy. ance, 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.... | |
| Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1905 - 316 pages
...punished; for, Pride thai dines yn vanity sups on contempt, as Poor Richard says. And in 10 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.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1905 - 512 pages
...punished; 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.... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Anthologies - 1910 - 330 pages
...for ' pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt,' as Poor 62 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.... | |
| Mary Minerva Barrows - Cheerfulness - 1905 - 208 pages
...esteem. The Spectator. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. Hazlitt. After all, of what use is this pride of appearance,...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.... | |
| American wit and humor - 1907 - 374 pages
...punished; for, Pride that dines yn 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.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 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,...appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered t It cannot promote health or ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates... | |
| Literature - 1910 - 272 pages
...punished ; 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.... | |
| Andrew Carnegie - Business - 1911 - 446 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,...for 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;... | |
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