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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sound, Libertarian, Prosperity

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• A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

  J. Paul Getty

  Practice, Discipline, Business Success

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• Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Time, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Sound, Libertarian, Discouraging

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strong, Men, Libertarian

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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• Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  People, Thrifty, Frugality

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• A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Teacher, Garden

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• Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Mean, Growth, Mental Health

  Orison Swett Marden (1922). “Heading for Victory: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life”

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• You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Discouraging

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• The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Thrifty, Cautious

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• You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

  Paul Getty

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Class

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• You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Politics

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strength, Leadership, Peace

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Courage, Freedom

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J.H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Insulting, Sometimes

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1035, GENERAL PRESS

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• Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Honesty, Sobriety, Greed

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• Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Creative, Waste, Dustbin

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Profit, Enterprise, Engines

  John Maynard Keynes (1930). “A treatise on money”

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• It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

  Alice Munro

  Emotional, World, Unhappiness

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Mar 10, 2013

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• I don't have a stylist. That, in a way, is cheating. Put five players in a thrift store and see who has the best style in the end, and then you'll see who has real style.

  Iman Shumpert

  Cheating, Real, Player

  Source: wwd.com

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• I started dressing and people used to ask, "Where do you get all that stuff?" I was going to thrift stores with my best friend Bianca Stewart.

  Iman Shumpert

  People, My Best Friend, Stuff

  Source: wwd.com

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• I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

  Macklemore

  Week, Shops, Five

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

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• I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.

  Katy Perry

  Vintage, Navy, Pieces

  "Katy Perry's High School Memories". www.seventeen.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

  Mason Cooley

  Ideas, Attractive, Specifics

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