 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...  The Cottager's monthly visitor - Page 2851822Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 lehte
...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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 lehte
...have bwi.-! ' one fine thing, you must buy ten mere, th yuur appearance may be all of a piece ; bu: : is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. /re»Hi«. Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of »I1 РВЕОЖ... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 lehte
...again, " 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 poor Dick says, " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that foliow it." And... | |
 | 1865 - 138 lehte
...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... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 lehte
...again, ' Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you_have bought one f,ne 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 satisfy all that follow it.' And... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 lehte
...boundlessness of his voluptuous desires, by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities. — South. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. ' One vice,' says Franklin, ' costs more to keep than two children.' Religiou is the... | |
 | William H. Ablett - 1867 - 94 lehte
...consult your purse.' And again, ' Pride is as bound a beggar as want, and POOR RICHARD. 67 a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing,...-more, that your appearance may 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... | |
 | Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 lehte
...more saucy." "Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse : Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...more, that your appearance may 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... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 lehte
...lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide And folly into sin ! " SCOTT. PP " It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." " For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter." BYRON. " Do... | |
 | Thomas Walker (poet.) - 1870 - 270 lehte
...cant. If you have bought a fine thing, you want ten more, That you may correspond behind and before. But it is easier to suppress the first desire, Than to satisfy all you may require ; And it is truly a folly for those that are poor To ape at the rich — of this I... | |
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