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
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson
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
Frugality is for the vulgar.
Francois Rabelais
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
John Ray
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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