 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 lehteFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Insular Affairs - 1924 - 172 lehte
...repose after the Great War earthquake. Possibly by that time, far less than now, will it be a case of "vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore." PHILIPPINES STRENGTH RATHER THAN WEAKNESS TO THE UNITED STATES Let us now consider the charge that... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on insular affairs - 1924 - 166 lehte
...repose after the Great War earthquake. Possibly by that time, far less than now, will it be a case of '' vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore." PHILIPPINES STRENGTH RATHER THAN AVEAKNESS TO THE UNITED STATES Let us now consider the charge that... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1925 - 670 lehte
...will sink a great ship." "Buy that thou hast no need of, ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries." "Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore." "A penny saved is two pence clear." Remember these maxims, my dear. Save a penny, and then we shall... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 lehte
...Poor Dick says,' Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And 'tis w 5 8w 5 Great Estates may venture more, But little Boats should keep near Shore. 'Tis, however, a Folly soon... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1927 - 328 lehte
...Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And 't is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. Great estates may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. 'T is, however, a folly soon... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 lehte
...Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And 't is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog 10 to swell in order to equal the ox. Great estates may venture more, But little boats should keep... | |
 | 1929 - 506 lehte
...want, and a great deal more saucy." " When you have bought one fine thing you must buy 10 more." "'Tis as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox; 'tis, however, a folly soon punished, for pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt." Regarding complaints... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1912 - 608 lehte
...that makes a man so deform'd, so beastly, As doth intemperate anger. — Webster's Duchess of Malp. Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. — Franklin. To read and not to know, Is to plow and not to sow. Cheap and Excellent Books SONG KNAPSACK.... | |
 | Merle Eugene Curti - 970 lehte
...lent to Man upon Hard Usury. . . . All men are by nature equal, But differ greatly in the sequel 'Tis as truly Folly for the Poor to ape the Rich, as for the Frog to swell, in order to equal the Ox. But the advice to accept one's fate was tempered with the admonition to acquire what one could: Get... | |
 | Cursetjee Manockjee Cursetjee - 1994 - 228 lehte
...and serviceable for the business they are put to, keeping in mind of course, Franklin's saying: — 'Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.' I should fancy (and I don't think I would be far wrong) these boats are of the same make and fashion... | |
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