 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 246 pages
...again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and & treat deal more saucy." When you have bought onu fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...consult your purse :' And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,...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... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...sell thy necessaries. Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets, put out the kitchen fire, as poor Richard says. 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 ox.... | |
 | 1842 - 194 pages
...consult your purse.' And again, ' Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...beggar as Want ; and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy many more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick suys, " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." And it is as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...consult your purse. And again, 'Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...have hought one fine thing, you -must huy ten more, that your appearance may he all of a piece ; hut poor Dick says, " It is easier to suppress the first...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the ;frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. " Vessels H*ge may venture more, But little hoats should... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 292 pages
...consult your purse. And again, 'Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,...desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And it is ai truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. 'Vessels... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...consult your purse. And again — Pride is 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 Poor Richard says, It is easier to THE SLAVERY OF DEBT. • 215 suppress the first desire, than to satisfy... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...consult your purse." And again, "pride is 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 "o •M« -;•!« <*= iH*i •»*}! •.!*pr .l-..' be all of a piece; but poor Dick says, "it la... | |
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And again, Pride is 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 Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy... 
