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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Te

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. – Samuel Johnson

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. – Benjamin Franklin

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He who does not economize will have to agonize. – Confucius

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Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character. – S.W. Straus

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? – Cicero

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