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1. Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct
2. Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital
3. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates; but whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater
4. Parsimony, by increasing the fund which is destined for the maintenance of productive hands, tends to increase the number of those hands whose labour adds to the value of the subject upon winch it is bestowed
5. England, however, as it has never been blessed with a very parsimonious government, so parsimony has at no time been the characteristic virtue of its inhabitants
6. The gold and silver which can properly be considered as accumulated, or stored up in any country, may be distinguished into three parts ; first, the circulating money; secondly, the plate of private families; and, last of all, the money which may have been collected by many years parsimony, and laid up in the treasury of the prince
7. Independent of this necessity, he is, in such a situation, naturally disposed to the parsimony requisite for accumulation
8. The high rate of profit seems everywhere to destroy that parsimony which, in other circumstances, is natural to the character of the merchant
9. Artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, can augment the revenue and wealth of their society by parsimony only ; or, as it is expressed in this system, by privation, that is, by depriving themselves of a part of the funds destined for their own subsistence
10. Nations, on the contrary, which, like Holland and Hamburgh, are composed chiefly of merchants, artificers, and manufacturers, can grow rich only through parsimony and privation
11. Fourthly, farmers and country labourers can no more augment, without parsimony, the real revenue, the annual produce of the land and labour of their society, than artificers, manufacturers, and merchants
12. Among nations, to whom commerce and manufacture are little known, the sovereign, it has already been observed in the Fourth book, is in a situation which naturally disposes him to the parsimony requisite for accumulation
13. The parsimony which leads to accumulation has become almost as rare in republican as in monarchical governments
14. The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war
15. It can indeed boast of many parks and gardens and even luxuriant vegetation, avenues decorated with rows of trees and a 19th century stone architecture surprising in its elegance and parsimony
16. Charly wanted to splurge in the worst way but the habit of parsimony remained strong enough to protect their new-gained hoard
17. Back to my room I found that the book guardians had already left; so with great tranquility and parsimony I planted myself in front of my closet and opened the doors wide with absolute resolution, to select a garment that made me seem humble and repentant in the eyes of Americus
18. It is also called the scientific principle of parsimony, which is a preference for the least complex explanation for an observation
19. With an exasperating parsimony he took down the chests, opened them, and placed on the table, one by one, seventy-two gold bricks, Everyone had forgotten about the existence of that fortune
20. She thought, I could see, that I was practising a repulsive parsimony on defenceless guests
21. also called the “scientific principle of parsimony,” which is a “preference for the least
22. therefore satisfies Occam's Razor and the principle of parsimony
23. He had not come to stay with him on his arrival in Petersburg simply from parsimony, though that had been perhaps his chief object
24. Mr Mulligan accepted of the invitation and, expatiating upon his design, told his hearers that he had been led into this thought by a consideration of the causes of sterility, both the inhibitory and the prohibitory, whether the inhibition in its turn were due to conjugal vexations or to a parsimony of the balance as well as whether the prohibition proceeded from defects congenital or from proclivities acquired
25. After ordering the meals for the day with his usual parsimony, the goodman, having locked the closets containing the supplies, was about to go towards the fruit-garden, when Nanon stopped him to
26. It would be idle to think that this was due simply to parsimony
27. He had not come to stay with him on his arrival in Petersburg simply from parsimony, 643 of 967
28. Grigory's description of the scene at the dinner-table, when Dmitri had burst in and beaten his father, threatening to come back to kill him, made a sinister impression on the court, especially as the old servant's composure in telling it, his parsimony of words and peculiar phraseology, were as effective as eloquence
29. The first thing they noticed was the unmistakable parsimony and niggardliness of Semyon Ivanovitch
30. And are we to regard as nothing the patriotic offer so often made by the States, to spend their last cent, and risk their last drop of blood, in the preservation of our neutral privileges? Or, are we to be governed by the low, grovelling parsimony of the counting room, and to cast up the actual pence in the drawer before we assert our inestimable rights?