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Sunday, August 14, 2022

Post #3137

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.
—Seneca

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Wednesday, January 03, 2018

Post #2483

He will always be a slave, who does not know how to live upon a little.
—Horace
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Post #2482

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.
—Cicero
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Post #2388

It is wealth to a man to be able to live contentedly upon a frugal store.
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Monday, May 15, 2017

Post #2336

Without frugality none can become rich, and with it, few would become poor.
—Samuel Johnson
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Monday, April 25, 2016

Post #2061

Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your being one in adversity.
—Johann von Zimmermann
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Thursday, January 07, 2016

Post #1984

He seldom lives frugally who lives by chance. Hope is always liberal; and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling to-day on the profits of the morrow.
—Samuel Johnson
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Friday, September 04, 2015

Post #1895

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
 —Agesilaus 

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Monday, August 25, 2014

Post #1626

Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.
—Samuel Johnson

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The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

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