The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. - Thomas Love Pea

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. – Thomas Love Peacock

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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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Willful waste brings woeful want. – Thomas Fuller

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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Lets not quibble! Im the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. – Tallulah Bankhead

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