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“The virtue of frugality lies in a middle between avarice and profusion, of which the one consists in an excess, the other in a defect of the proper attention to the objects of self–interest.”

— Adam Smith

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Wikiquote: Adam Smith
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Section II, Chap. I.

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Smith, Adam. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Adam Smith. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Smith

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