 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...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...as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. 1 Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.' 12 "It is, however, a folly... | |
 | 1828 - 594 pages
...observe, that ' ' A ploughman on his legs, is higher than a gentleman on his knees." " It is as absurd for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell with desire to equal the ox." After all, what use is all this pride of appearance, for which so much... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...thing, you must buyten 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...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...fine thing, you must buVpten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Ihck says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it : and it is ¡t.; truly lolly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell iu ortler to al the ox. Vessels... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...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...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...thing-, ,jou 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...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may v«nture more, But little boats should... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...Poor Dick fays, " It is cafter to fupprefs the firft defire, than to fatiify all that follow it :" Ana it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as- fer the frog 19 fwell, in order to equal (he ox, " VeiTuls large may venture more, But little boats... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...sav'd, amount to pounds iu haste." " Beware of little expences, a small leak will sink a great ship." It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. " Vessels' large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore." " Pride, that dines on... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...have bought one fine 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. DCLX. It is certainly a mistake in the ancients to draw the little gentleman Love as... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...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...venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.' 12 "It is, however, a folly soon punished; for, as Poor Richard says, 'Pride that dines on vanity,... | |
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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... 
