Economy Quotes
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.
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Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
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Take care to be an economist in prosperity; there is no fear of your not being one in adversity.
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The back door robs the house.
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The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
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The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, The man that lives by hope, will die by despair
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The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
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There are but two ways of paying a debt; increase of industry in raising income, or increase of thrift in laying out.
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To make three guineas do the work of five.
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Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste on the other, by which, on the same income, another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.
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Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.
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