50. Frugality is good if accompanied by liberality. Frugality avoids unnecessary expenses; liberality gives to others that are in need. Frugality without liberality produces covetousness; liberality without frugality produces reckless waste. Both together make an excellent mixture. Wherever this mixture exists, happiness is found.
-William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims
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