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Quote by Adriano Tilgher
I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now c

I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. – Adriano Tilgher

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Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised. – Adriano Tilgher

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