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• Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Simplicity, Contentment

  1603-4 Iago to Othello. Othello, act 3, sc.3, l.176-8.

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• Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

  George Herbert

  Years, Clothes, Endurance

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.248

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• 1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise.
  2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost.
  3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue.
  4. Take now and then a day's rest.
  5. Get a smart seasickness if you can.
  6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy.
  This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Smart, Exercise, Journey

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi (1952). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: 1775-1782”

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• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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• Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

  John Wesley

  Money, Giving, Methodists

  "The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M". Book edited by John Emory, Volume I, p. 446. Sermon 50: "The Use of Money", 1840.

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• Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Money, Use

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.38

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• How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Bears, Chariots

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• One of the better ways to simplify our lives is to follow the counsel we have so often received to live within our income, stay out of debt, and save for a rainy day. We should practice and increase our habits of thrift, industry, economy, and frugality. Members of a well-managed family do not pay interest; they earn it.

  L. Tom Perry

  Rainy Day, Practice, Debt

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• In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

  Moliere

  Order, Meals, Guests

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• Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Business, Grateful, Men

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.13, e-artnow

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• I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.

  Grover Cleveland

  Honesty, Betrayal, Party

  Grover Cleveland (1892). “The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland”

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• The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

  Livy

  Poverty, Kind, Shame

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXXIV. 4, (p. 702), 1922.

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• Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Forever, Cost, Lasts

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “The Wedding”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Insightful, Investing, Riches

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...: Posthumous and other writings”, p.59

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• [Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Humility, Order, Justice

  Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Clever, Exercise, People

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1900). “Collected Essays”

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• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Humility, Order

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• Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  May, Rich, Economy

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• Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. 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; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

  Patrick Henry

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Blessing

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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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• Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to have little desire for material goods, but worldly people use frugality as a cover for stinginess. Thus do watchwords of enlightened life turn into tools for the private business of small people. What a pity!

  Zicheng Hong

  Mean, People, Justice

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• Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

  Margaret Atwood

  Greed, Promise, Fuel

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• I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is true, but what kind of marriage will those perfect marriages be? There will be no tension, there will be no individuality in the man or in the woman. They will never collide, they will never fight. They will be too sweet to each other. And too much sweetness brings diabetes! Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Sweet, Fighting

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• Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

  John Gokongwei

  Dream, Business, Integrity

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• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, War, Evil

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1853). “Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts ; Speeches in Congress”, p.394

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