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• Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

  Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

  Life, Dream, Believe

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• The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which these other forms of protection can be soundly built. Thus, the individual's own work, his planning and his thrift will bring him a higher standard of living upon his retirement, or his family a higher standard of living in the event of his death, than would otherwise be the case. Hence the system both encourages thrift and self-reliance, and helps to prevent destitution in our national life.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Retirement, Pension Plans, Self

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• Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  America, Vermont

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• I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

  Monica Potter

  Flower, Home, Want

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• The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

  Raj Patel

  Opposites, Generosity, Consumption

  Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta

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• I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Girl, Shopping, Dresses

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• Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

  Theodore T. Munger

  Brother, Secret, Vices

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• Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.

  Theodore T. Munger

  Majority, Details, Rich

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• No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Safety, Genuine

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• It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Decay, World, May

  1930 A Treatise on Money.

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• Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.

  Isabella Beeton

  Income, Waste, Degenerates

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• Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Quilts, Memories, Flower

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Animal, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.362

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• The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

  Agnes Repplier

  Heart, One Direction, Dear

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

  Miranda July

  Littles, Normal, Bedroom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

  Robert Lembke

  Littles, Way, Pleasure

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• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Sunday, Fleas, Gals

  "Tribeca Film Festival Cast Interview: Beware! The Gonzo". Interview with Caitlin Colford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

  Erin Wasson

  Real, Interesting, Style

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• All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

  Hetty Green

  Shrewdness, Dear, Persistent

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• The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

  Norman Thomas

  Dumb, Trying, Doctrine

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• What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

  Rick Perry

  Growing Up, Hard Work, Way

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Generosity, Avarice

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• We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, Independence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

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• You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Prosperity, Application

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• The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Money, Believe, Gold

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