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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... "
The Hand Book of Illustrated Proverbs: Comprising Also a Selection of ... - Page 65
by John Warner Barber - 1857 - 252 pages
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 23

1850 - 724 pages
...to lay out money in a purchase of repentance" " Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears." '•'•Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy." " By diligence and patience the mouse out in two the cable." We may crown these words of wisdom with...
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London at table; or, How, when, and where to dine and order a dinner

1851 - 112 pages
...dry, they know the worth of water. If you would know the value of money, go and try and borrow some. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more sancy. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Pride that dines...
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A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects ...

Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 pages
...down. Wm. C. And luxury. Pride and disdain turn mercy into judgment. Pride will have a fall. Franklin. 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;...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...Bedlam, shall perceive their fancies to beat most upon mistakes in honor or love. — Osborn. PRIDE. — 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...
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Chambers's Information for the People: A Popular Encyclopedia, Volume 2

William Chambers - 1853 - 858 pages
...Fond pride of dress if (Mire n very curse : Kre fancy you consult, consult your purse.1 " 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...
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Meliora: or, Better times to come. Being the contributions of ..., Volume 661

Meliora - 1853 - 276 pages
...out money in a purchase of repentance.' ' Sloth, like rust, consumes, faster than labour wears.' ' Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' ' By diligence and patience the mouse cut in two the cable.' We may crown these words of wisdom with...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pages
...says, - Fond pride of dress is sore a curse ; Ere fancy yon consult, consult your purse.' 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...
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Die kunst oder methode: sprachen auf die leichteste, schnellste und ...

Carl August Friedrich Mahn - 1855 - 310 pages
...purse elje ifjr bie *$ljantafie (Neigung) um Slat!) fragt, jiefyt eure Sörfe ;u 9iatf)e. And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy unbttieberttm: £>cr ©tot* ifl ein fo lauter Söettlcr ale berSKangei imk »iel un»erfd)amter. When...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 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 sancy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all...
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The Prose Writers of America: With a Survey of the Intellectual History ...

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...says, Fond pride of dress is svre a very curse ; Ere fancy you consult, consult your parse. 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 ton more, that your appearance may be all of a piece...
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