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Thrift is of great revenue.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.

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

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.