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Adam Smith·1776

Every prodigal appears to be a public enemy, and every frugal man a public benefactor. By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands for that or the ensuing year, but, like the founder of a public workhouse, he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

Seneca·65 AD

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Edmund Burke·1780

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.