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• Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

  Justinian I

  Mother, Virtue

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• If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Happiness, Inner Peace

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• Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Learning, Rich, Frugal

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1815*). “The Life and Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin”, p.210

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• Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Healthy, Wealth, Sober

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.68

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• If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Philosophy, Stones

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

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• I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

  Pablo Picasso

  Witty, Money, Men

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• He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances.

  Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Mean, Niggard, Circumstances

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• I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Believe, Aquariums, Essentials

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Money, Business

  David Copperfield ch. 12 (1850)

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• By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

  Agesilaus II

  Simplicity, Liberty, Golden

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• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health". "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health", Vol. LXXXV, p. 170, September, 1887.

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• Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

  John Adams

  Life, Virtue, Industry

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.58, UPNE

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• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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• No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

  George Mason

  Freedom, Blessing, Government

  Virginia Declaration of Rights (Article 15), June 12, 1776.

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• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  Edmund Burke

  Riches, Limits, Economy And Economics

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• Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Parent, Liberty

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.19

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• Frugality is for the vulgar.

  Francois Rabelais

  Vulgar

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• ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

  John Ray

  Hands, Environmental, Fortune

  "A Complete Collection of English Proverbs".

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• There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.

  James E. Faust

  Wise, Mean, Practice

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• Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

  William Penn

  Leaving, Needs, Benefits

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• You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Being Happy, Simple

  "Living Our Values, Closing the Ethical Gap" by Jeffrey Rubin, bigthink.com.

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, People, Income

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1997). “De oratore: Book III ; De fato ; Paradoxa stoicorum ; De partitione oratoria”

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• Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.

  Calvin Coolidge

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• The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tragedy, Cheapness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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