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" Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy. And after all, of what use is this pride of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? It cannot promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit... "
Practical Morality; Or, A Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord ... - Side 270
af Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1831 - 275 sider
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Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young, Oplag 10

1796 - 34 sider
...dines on vanity, sups on contempt; — Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, an.d^-supped with Infamy." And, after all, of what use is this pride of appearance, for which so much is risqued, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit...
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Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 sider
...on contempt/ as poor Richard says. And in another place, ' Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with infamy.' And after all, of what use is the pride of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health,...
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Select Pieces

Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 78 sider
...contempt," as poor Richard says. And in another place, " Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy." And, after all,...risked, so much is suffered? It cannot promote health, or ease pain, it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it jereates envy ; it hastens misfortune....
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The gleaner; or, Entertainment for the fire-side [compiled by J. Watson].

Gleaner - 1805 - 426 sider
...appearance, for which so much is risqued, 'so iMuch is suffered ? It cannot promote health, nor «ase pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person,...it hastens misfortune. ' But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities.! We are offered, by the terms of this sale, six months'...
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The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late ..., Bind 3

Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 590 sider
...Richard says, " pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt ; pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy." And, after all,...it hastens misfortune. ' But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities ! We are offered, by the terms of this sale, six months credit...
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The complete works ... of ... Benjamin Franklin, Bind 3

Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 sider
...Richard says, "pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt; pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. And, after all, of...it hastens misfortune. •But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities ! We are offered, by the terms of this sale, six months credit;...
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Lionel and Clarissa, by I. Bickerstaff. The toy shop; the king and the ...

James Plumptre - 1812 - 424 sider
..." Pride, that dines on vanity, sups on " contempt y" " Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined " with Poverty, and supped with Infamy." And, after all,...envy, it hastens misfortune. But what madness must it be to run in debt for those superfluities ? We are offered by the terms of this sale, six months credit...
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The literary miscellany: or, Selections and extracts, classical and ..., Bind 9

1812 - 314 sider
...contempt," as poor Richard says. And in another place, " Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy." And, after all,...risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, or ease pain, it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortune....
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The literary miscellany: or, Selections and extracts, classical and ..., Bind 9

1812 - 314 sider
...pride of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, or ease pain, it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortune. "What is a butterfly? at best he's but a caterpillar drest; the gaudy fop's his picture just," as poor...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Bind 6

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 sider
...Richard says, " Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt; Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy." And after all, of what use is the pride of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health,...
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