How To Use Frugality In A Sentence
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Their frugality, intense militarism and hardiness stood them in very good stead, as did their love of what contemporaries called liberty: freedom from foreign control.
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‘We learned our frugality from my mother,’ he explains.
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Since the consequences of undersaving (destitution in one's old age) seem more dire than those of oversaving (unnecessary frugality in one's productive years), if the decision of how much to save is left to individuals, most of them, being risk-averse, will oversave.
Libertarian Basics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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We must build up our country with industry and frugality.
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Frugality when all is spent comes too late.
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frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues
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The bright side of this kind of frugality is that a home starts to smell like a real home and the kitchens left unused when you were away, will get a real workout.
The Bright Side of Frugality
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Industry analyst Marshal Cohen attributes higher turnout to what he calls frugality fatigue.
Holiday Shopping Rush Begins in US
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Chef Michael Mina's creations are stunning - an exquisite caviar parfait, tempura prawns with a light truffle cream, sea bass marinated in Japanese miso, a rich lobster pot pie that turns the tables on traditional Yankee frugality.
TWICE - Digital Imaging News
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Frugality when all is spent comes too late.
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The early settlers - Dutch and German - brought with them a sense of orderliness, frugality, and a love of jams and preserves, konfyt, and of baked goods which remains evident even now.
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Frugality when all is spent comes too late.
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Yet Smith also saw that the roots of ‘this frugality’ ran much deeper than Calvinist cant or even moral rectitude.
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And observing that it was generally read, scarce any neighborhood in the province being without it, I considered it as a proper vehicle for conveying instruction among the common people, who bought scarcely any other books; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as a means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly as, to use here one of the proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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His frugality and thrift were particularly notorious.
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And this is confirmed from the present practice; for in our religious or public feasts, where the food is simple and inartificial, each man hath his mess assigned him; so that he that endeavors to retrieve the ancient custom will likewise recover thrift and almost lost frugality again.
Essays and Miscellanies
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My frugality is still moderate by Scottish standards, though.
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Industry if fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
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Karamargin, a spokesman for Ms. Giffords, called her penchant for frugality.
NYT > Home Page
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Everything on victory night is forgivable and it seems as if the laws of morality, common sense, frugality and physiology are to be set aside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Industry if fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
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Departing from his predecessor's frugality, he provided lavish games for the Romans to enjoy, and abolished the sales tax.
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Nicola cultivated an air of frugality which, I'm afraid, was more natural than contrived.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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Frugality when all is spent comes too late.
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Industry if fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
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Industry if fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
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Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left.
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Of course there are also other places one can stay here if frugality is not in their vocabulary!
North of Puerto Vallarta
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Industry if fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
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The inn-keeper in the Milan version is vexed and disconcerted with the frugality of the meal of leafage and bread, which has been contemptuously served on a tin plate.
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So too in the case of flattery we must observe and be on our guard against wastefulness being called liberality, and cowardliness prudence, and madness quick-wittedness, and meanness frugality, and the amorous man called social and affectionate, and the term manly applied to the passionate and vain man, and the term civil applied to the paltry and mean man.
Plutarch's Morals
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Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left.
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Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left.
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Perhaps this Tuesday will let him pass "megalomaniac" to days of yore in favor of an older moniker, "Fred the Shred," earned from a former reputation for frugality.
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The young prince showed, among other virtues, a disposition to frugality, which, had he lived, would soon have retrieved these losses; but as his health was declining very fast, the present emptiness of the exchequer was a sensible obstacle to the execution of those projects which the ambition of Northumberland had founded on the prospect of
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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His frugality and thrift were particularly notorious.
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These sentiments are born out of a preboom frugality that relied on hand-me-downs and an ability to fashion new things out of old.
Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
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The principle of diligence and frugality applies to all undertakings.
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The bad news is that this new frugality could soon be offset by higher borrowing costs.
Times, Sunday Times
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For these diseases are caused by indigestion and flatulency, and by frugality and exercise they remove every humor and spasm.
The City of the Sun
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Industry if fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
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And similarly among the Romans, the Rutilii, and Galbæ, and Scauri, men of eminent reputation for purity of life and manners, and for frugality; and in the succeeding generations, many men of censorian and consular rank, and even many who had celebrated triumphs, such as the
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
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We must practise the strictest frugality and economy.
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He was true to his heritage in valuing hard work, frugality, practicality, and taciturnity.
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That year, a letter to the Newport Mercury, authored by “Frugality,” continued the redefinition of American freedom as self-denial: “We may talk and boast of liberty; but after all, the industrious and frugal only will be free.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Frugality is in, frivolousness is out, ' said Shilpa Rosenberry, a consultant with WSL.
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He stands out among the arriviste engineers who dominate the tech industry, combining aristocratic reserve with a merchant's frugality and the obsessive drive of an entrepreneur.
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I filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4
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Both are at one with a certain instinct of frugality, by which I do not mean meanness.
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Its "proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue," were sown like seed all over the land.
Benjamin Franklin
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The term frugality has been so perverted that it now means 'No, no, no' to everyone, whether it's shoes or lattes or travel," he said.
NYT > Home Page
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Frugality is an estate alone.
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Confucius said, ‘Lavishness leads to arrogance, frugality leads to shabbiness, but it is better to be shabby than arrogant’.
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The bad news is that this new frugality could soon be offset by higher borrowing costs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left.
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Another bright spot in frugality is the cost of transportation and telephones.
Archive 2008-04-01
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He complained that the colonel starves his works out of whimsicalness and frugality, endeavouring to do every thing with his own people, and at the same time taking them off upon every vagary that comes into his head.
The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published
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Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left.
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The Holyrood project has scuppered Scotland's reputation for meanness - perhaps a Minister for Frugality is needed or a Department of Thrift.
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They also passed a law that public officeholders possess the moral characteristics of ‘piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality.’
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Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left.
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Frugality is an estate alone.
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The revelations about Dewar's astounding personal wealth belie the First Minister's image as a man who scorned the finer things in life and valued frugality and simplicity.
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But it is a frugal state, and the politics of frugality often breed conservative social and civic decisions.
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The constant battle to kill waste ( "muda") produced the company's legendary frugality.
Reuters: Top News
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Mansions, in Hospital Palaces of Chambord and Chantilly; peace bought by victory; breaches healed by Feast of Etre Supreme; -- and so, through seas of blood, to Equality, Frugality, worksome Blessedness, Fraternity, and Republic of the virtues!
The French Revolution
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It is a future in which both the working class and middle class shrink as labor unions are destroyed, pensions are decimated, and ordinary people lose their jobs because private corporations ship them overseas and government jobs are eliminated in the name of frugality.
Alan Singer: Is the Tea Party Future Unfolding in London?
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In keeping with Scottish traditions of frugality and a canny eye for making a penny, the Freemasons who designed it felt that it would be of much more use if it remained relatively unembellished.
