| 1833 - 336 páginas
..."pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine tiling, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. " Vessels large may venture more, But little boats... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 206 páginas
...consull, commit your pum.' And again, ' Pride is as loud a beggar an Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' Veuels large may venture more, !{ui tittle boaU... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 312 páginas
...must huy ten more, that your appearance may he all of a piece; hut poor Pick says, ' It iseasierto suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that...it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, eia the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. Vessels largo may venture more, But little hoats should... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1835 - 262 páginas
...consult your rurse." 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 apiece; but poor Dick says, "it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow... | |
| Golden rules - 1835 - 44 páginas
...Pride. — Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one tine 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. — Franklin. Titles.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1835 - 340 páginas
...ten more, that yonr appearance may he all of a piece ; bnt poor Dick says, N it is easier to snppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it; .. and it is as trnly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order the eqnal the ox. " Vessels... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 584 páginas
...consult, 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...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1837 - 356 páginas
...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...folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swtll in order to equal the ox. 'Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near... | |
| Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 páginas
...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.... | |
| 1841 - 300 páginas
...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...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. " Vessels large may venture more, But little boats... | |
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