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Definition of Frugality
Frugality

The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance.

A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.

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Frugality Quotations

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
John Ray

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
Andrew Johnson

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
John Tyler

Frugality Translations

frugality in Latin is frugalitas


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