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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... "
Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces: Arranged Under the ... - Page 32
by Benjamin Franklin - 1779 - 567 pages
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Public Ledger Almanacs: For the Years 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875

1870 - 684 pages
...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 all that follow it, and it is as...
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Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A ...

Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...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 it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. He that hath a trade,...
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How to get on

Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...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 all that follow it. And it is as truly...
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The Holborn Series of Reading Books. Instructive Reader

Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...very curse : Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.4 When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece. And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich as for the frog to swell in order to equal the...
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Choice Thoughts; Or, Selections from Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Different ...

Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...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 it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. S. Franklin, Mass., 1706-1790....
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The London readers. First (-Sixth) reader

London readers - 1878 - 248 pages
...as bad a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fare 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. 2. The Night is mother...
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The national thrift reader

Phebe Lankester - 1880 - 270 pages
...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 'It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And it is as truly...
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Political economy reading book

sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1882 - 250 pages
...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 all that follow it." And it is as...
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The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific ..., Volume 2

1882 - 630 pages
...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 all that follow it.' And it is as...
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Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures and Triumphs

Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1884 - 564 pages
...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 all that follow it.' And it is as...
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