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frugal
1. the meanest cup of water or to eat even the most frugal morsel
2. she were frugal for a few years, and given the likely length of her life, then the glories
3. It was a frugal meal
4. She worked out that if she were frugal for a few years, and given the likely length of her life, then the glories of compound interest and stock markets might make her fabulously wealthy
5. It was a frugal meal but it would be enough to see him through to evening
6. I guess again I wasn't frugal and I didn't know what I was doing, so I was constantly running out of money in the middle of the week like say Wednesday; money that was supposed to last me through Sunday
7. the credit of a frugal and thriving man increases much faster than his stock
8. Columella, who reports this judgment of Democritus, does not controvert it, but proposes a very frugal method of inclosing with a hedge of brambles and briars, which he says he had found by experience to be both a lasting and an impenetrable fence ; but which, it seems, was not commonly known in the time of Democritus
9. But a bank which lends money, perhaps to five hundred different people, the greater part of whom its directors can know very little about, is not likely to be more judicious in the choice of its debtors than a private person who lends out his money among a few people whom he knows, and in whose sober and frugal conduct he thinks he has good reason to confide
10. The sober and frugal debtors of private persons, on the contrary, would be more likely to employ the money borrowed in sober undertakings which were proportioned to their capitals, and which, though they might have less of the grand and the marvellous, would have more of the solid and the profitable ; which would repay with a large profit whatever had been laid out upon them, and which would thus afford a fund capable of maintaining a much greater quantity of labour than that which had been employed about them
11. By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands, for that of the ensuing year, but like the founder of a public work-house he establishes, as it were, a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come
12. A man of fortune, for example, may either spend his revenue in a profuse and sumptuous table, and in maintaining a great number of menial servants, and a multitude of dogs and horses; or, contenting himself with a frugal table, and few attendants, he may lay out the greater part of it in adorning his house or his country villa, in useful or ornamental buildings, in useful or ornamental furniture, in collecting books, statues, pictures ; or in things more frivolous, jewels, baubles, ingenious trinkets of different kinds; or, what is most trifling of all, in amassing a great wardrobe of fine clothes, like the favourite and minister of a great prince who died a few years ago
13. Even among borrowers, therefore, not the people in the world most famous for frugality, the number of the frugal and industrious surpasses considerably that of the prodigal and idle
14. To improve land with profit, like all other commercial projects, requires an exact attention to small savings and small gains, of which a man born to a great fortune, even though naturally frugal, is very seldom capable
15. A frugal man, or a man eager to be rich, is said to love money ; and a careless, a generous, or a profuse man, is said to be indifferent about it
16. Their ecclesiastical government is conducted upon a plan equally frugal
17. By advancing to private people, at interest, and upon land security to double the value, paper bills of credit, to be redeemed fifteen years after their date ; and, in the mean time, made transferable from hand to hand, like banknotes, and declared by act of assembly to be a legal tender in all payments from one inhabitant of the province to another, it raised a moderate revenue, which went a considerable way towards defraying an annual expense of about £4,500, the whole ordinary expense of that frugal and orderly government
18. The best and most frugal way of levying a tax can never be by farm
19. hospitality, constantly exercised by the great landholders, may not, to us in the present times, seem consistent with that order which we are apt to consider as inseparably connected with good economy; yet we must certainly allow them to have been at least so far frugal, as not commonly to have spent their whole income
20. It occasions a general and most pernicious subversion of the fortunes of private people; enriching, in most cases, the idle and profuse debtor, at the expense of the industrious and frugal creditor ; and transporting a great part of the national capital from the hands which were likely to increase and improve it, to those who are likely to dissipate and destroy it
21. The Castigator had been blunt in his orders and frugal in his explanations
22. What can you do to cut your expenses today and run a more frugal business structure?
23. My father was frugal, but he wasn’t cheap
24. So he was frugal with me, and this really applied while I was in college
25. Being Scottish he was very frugal in every way and spent most of his time performing his research
26. His position was, "If I am in the business of saving money, I need to be frugal in the money I spend to do so
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31. In the hut she seated the king on a rude, hide-covered bench, and she herself sat upon a low stool before the tiny fireplace, while she made a fire of tamarisk chunks and prepared a frugal meal
32. When we married, she advised us to start out with a frugal lifestyle and lower standard of living
33. Emperor Hirohito, having finished his frugal lunch of rice and dried fish, signaled to the imperial lady-in-waiting that she could take away his empty plates and his sticks
34. The menu was actually quite limited and frugal, consisting of bread and of a thin vegetable stew with a few small pieces of meat in it
35. The slavers, who kept food only for themselves, ate a frugal meal of cheese and bread and forced their prisoners back in the cage after twenty minutes
36. She lives with roommates not because she's poor but because she is frugal
37. On this deployment she again was proving to be frugal with what kit she took with her, despite being a flag rank officer
38. Ho Chi Minh, who was finishing a frugal meal of rice and dried fish, looked up with impatience at Vo Nguyen Giap when the latter approached the table used by Ho and his two highest ranking associates, Truong Chinh and Le Duan
39. using a skill called “Fast and frugal” which tapped into the adaptive unconscious mind
40. I chose not to tell her that I had made enough money over the course of my professional career to last me a somewhat frugal lifetime for fear of coming off as cocky or as a braggart
41. After a quick, frugal lunch, the sixteen travelers went back in their boat and rowed away from the shore before raising again their sail and resuming their course towards Ville-Marie
42. Be frugal about your ration, since we don’t know how long this could go on
43. Try to balance being cheap with being frugal
44. Six Traits of the Frugal Shopper
45. A frugal shopper has skills that help him or her gain benefit of the money-saving opportunities in life
46. Below I have listed several traits found in frugal shoppers
47. By incorporating these into your life, you too can become a frugal shopper
48. Frugal shoppers pay cash
49. Be ready to do the math if you want to be a frugal shopper
50. The above are examples of things you can do to save money on your quest to live to live the frugal lifestyle
