PARSIMONIOUS LIBERALITY
THE scorn that is often expended upon the "meanness" of economical, not to say of miserly people, would be mitigated if it were known in how many cases their savings are put to a good use and given away generously. Economy is altogether different from penuriousness, for it is economy that...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Argosy : a magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems travels, essays, and poems, 1892-02, Vol.53, p.106-107 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | THE scorn that is often expended upon the "meanness" of economical, not to say of miserly people, would be mitigated if it were known in how many cases their savings are put to a good use and given away generously. Economy is altogether different from penuriousness, for it is economy that can always best afford to be generous. In one of his lectures, Emerson relates the following anecdote: "An opulent merchant in Boston was called on by a friend on behalf of a charity. |
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| ISSN: | 2043-1295 |