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— Francis Atterbury"Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly."
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Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.
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