 | 1834 - 430 pages
...would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some — for he that goes borrowing goes sorrowing. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Lying rides on debt's back.... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1835 - 262 pages
..."Fond pride of dress is sure a very curee, Ere fancy you consult, consult your rurse." And again, *' pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal...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 pages
...himself much regarded, without a moderate share at least of parts and understanding. — Hume. 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... | |
 | 1835 - 444 pages
...Balance your expenses by the just weight of your own estate, and not by the poise of another's spending. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to be charitable. Consider the life of man how full of vexatious... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...says, Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse ; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...dress is sure a very curse ; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. And again, Pride is as loiul a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Autobiographical memory - 1837 - 356 pages
...'Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse : Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse: And again , ' Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 246 pages
...again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and & treat deal more saucy." When you have bought onu 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 satisfy all that follow it." And... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse : Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse :' And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal...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... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...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.... | |
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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, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy... 
