 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, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to...  Select Pieces - Page 9by Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1826 - 407 pages
...be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And it 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 v«nture more, But little boats should... | |
 | 1826 - 407 pages
...be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And it 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... | |
 | Literature - 1826
...Poor Dick fays, " It is cafter to fupprefs the firft defire, than to fatiify all that follow it :" Ana it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as- fer the frog 19 fwell, in order to equal (he ox, " VeiTuls large may venture more, But little boats... | |
 | Ethics - 1828
...sink a great ship." It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. " Vessels' large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore." " Pride, that dines on vanity, sups on contempt." The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the debtor... | |
 | ADVICE - 1829 - 248 pages
...their wages, as that I have mentioned; but every one, of course, must act according to their means : " Vessels large, may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore." So I should recommend them to be frugal in their expences, and lay by a shilling or a sixpence from... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 300 pages
...be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it:' And it is as truly folly for...venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.' 12 "It is, however, a folly soon punished; for, as Poor Richard says, 'Pride that dines on vanity,... | |
 | Alexander Spencer - 1831
...consult, consult your purse. It is easier to suppress the fust desire, than to satisfy all that follow ; and it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich,...venture more, but little boats should keep near shore. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees; but to keep himself upright, and free... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1831 - 275 pages
...suppress the first desire, t! MI to satisfy all that follow it ;" and it is as truly folly Tor the poor lo ape the rich, as for the frog to Swell, in order to equal the ox. " Vessel? large may venture more, Rut little bouts should keep near shore." * It is, however, a folly... | |
 | Working class - 1832
...be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the iirst desire, tkan to satisfy all that follow it.* And it is as truly folly for...as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' Vessel« large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.' It is, however, a follysoon... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1834 - 192 pages
...be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly folly for the...as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' Veuels large may venture more, !{ui tittle boaU should keep neer shore.' ' It is however, a folly... | |
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