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Frugality, like honesty, is a starving virtue fit only for small peaceable societies
Drawn from what Bernard Mandeville said
What Bernard Mandeville actually said
- Bernard Mandeville Anglo-Dutch philosopher and satirist (1670 to 1733)
Frugality is like honesty, a mean starving virtue, that is only fit for small societies of good peaceable men, who are contented to be poor, so they may be easy; but, in a large stirring nation, you may have soon enough of it.
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↗The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Public Benefits (1714; 1806 edition)gutenberg.org
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