 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, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy...  THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - Page 222by W & R CHAMBERS - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Judaism - 1874 - 648 pages
...beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. — George Herbert. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When yon have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that jonr appearance may be all of a piece ;... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...damage than want of knowledge; and again, not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal...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. He that hath a trade,... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Anthologies - 1922 - 518 pages
...to get it in again. Poor Dick further advises and says: "Fond pride of dress is, sure, a very curse; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse." And again,...appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, " 'tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." And 'tis as true folly... | |
 | Frank Ellsworth Spaulding, Catherine Turner Bryce - English language - 1924 - 280 pages
...ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. 12. When the well is dry they know the worth of water. 13. Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. 14. It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. 15. Dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time,... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...get it in again. Poor Dick farther advises, and says, Fond Pride of Dress is sure a very Curse; E'er z 5 z 5 y 5 Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And 'tis as truly Folly... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...get it in again. Poor Dick farther advises, and says, Fond pride of dress is swe a very curse; E'er fancy you consult, consult your purse. And again,...appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And 't is as truly folly... | |
 | William Gardiner - Conduct of life - 1927 - 328 pages
...get it in again. Poor Dick further advises, and says— Fond pride of dress is, sure, a very curse; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. And again, Pride is as loud as beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...pride. Swift, III, 405. WHOEVER desires the character of a proud man, ought to conceal his vanity. Ibid. PRIDE is as loud a Beggar as Want, and a great deal more Saucy. Halifax, 181. GREAT Bashfulness is oftener an Effeft of Pride than of Modesty. Ibid., 245. No cause... | |
 | Education - 1929 - 506 pages
...of saving as well as getting." " If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some." "Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal..." 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 90 pages
...lose his paper too. There are three Things extreamly hard : Steel, a Diamond and to know one's self. Pride is as loud a Beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. If evils come not, then our fears are vain ; And if they do, fear but augments the pain. Be not niggardly... | |
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