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  • If Enterprise is afoot,Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening toThrift; and if Enterprise is asleep,Wealth decays, whateverThrift may be doing.

    -John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
      A  Treatise on Money.

  • The vice of meanness, condemned in every other country, is in Scotland translated into a virtue called 'thrift'.

    - David Thomson
      Nairn in Darkness and Light.

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