 | Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...purse. C0 And again — Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great ^ f-, deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, , ^ you must buy ten...; 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... | |
 | William Blanchard Jerrold - 1874 - 128 pages
...animosity don't set a tombstone over 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,... | |
 | Judaism - 1874 - 648 pages
...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 Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 pages
...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 - American literature - 1876 - 168 pages
...— the result is the same. v. 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 it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. JEFFERSON. 1743-1826.... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...Himself must either hold or drive." 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 it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. He that hath a trade,... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...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, hath an estate, and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour;... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...says, " ' Fond pride of dress is sure a 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... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...Mass., 1794-1865. 87. Pride. 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 it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. S. Franklin, Mass., 1706-1790.... | |
 | London readers - 1878 - 248 pages
...— 1. Pride is as bad a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fare 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. 2. The Night is mother... | |
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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... 
