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Thrift Quotes

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.8

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

John Maynard Keynes (1930). “A treatise on money”

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.36

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

Doris Lessing (2010). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5”, p.301, Vintage

It's smart to be thrifty.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.210, e-artnow

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

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