Quotes with thrift

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• Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  Thomas Alva Edison
  American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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• Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

  Calvin Coolidge
  American president (1872 - 1933)
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• Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.

  Barry McGee
  American artist
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• The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

  Ogden Nash
  American poet (1902 - 1971)
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• There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• Thrift is of great revenue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-control
• limitless
• character
• something
• increase
• through

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