Austerity
Sourness and harshness to the taste.
Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity.
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Austerity Quotations
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
Sean O'Casey
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
James Reston
We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
Abraham Kuyper
Austerity Translations
austerity in Italian is limitazione
austerity in Spanish is restriccion, austeridad
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