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MAXIM V.
Esteem thrift and economy, for thereby is saved money in business.
The Holy Edict of K'ang-Hi (second Manchu Emperor of China ruled 1662 - 1722)
translated by Paul Carus, with (Daisetz) Teitaro Suzuki
from "The Monist" Volume XIV Chicago 1904

Millish dy ghoaill, agh sharroo dy eeck.
"Sweet to take but bitter to pay "

Hig daill gys eeck.
"Credit will come to pay."

Share goll dy lie fegooish shibber na girree ayns lhiastynys.
"Better to go to bed supperless than to get up in debt."

The Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man
A. W. Moore [1891]

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.
Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).

The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual creation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Wealth,” The Conduct of Life (1860).

Diligence is the basis of wealth, and thrift the source of riches.
Chinese proverb.

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 168 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).
Columbia Encyclopedia.

Thunder on the mountain:
The image of PREPONDERANCE OF THE SMALL.
Thus in his conduct the superior man gives preponderance to reverence.
In bereavement he gives preponderance to grief.
In his expenditures he gives preponderance to thrift.
Hexagram 62: Hsiao Kuo / Preponderance of the Small, I Ching, Wilhelm Translation

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