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spendthrift

«She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.»

Author: Anatole Broyard | Keywords: an American, Evelyn, Evelyn Waugh, Paris, spendthrift, Waugh

«Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.»

Author: Paul Scherer | Keywords: arithmetic, spendthrift

«None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation»

Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Secrets | Keywords: circulation, covets, spendthrift

«The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.»

Author: Jean de la Bruyere | Keywords: heirs, miser, spendthrift

«Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Nature | Keywords: shortest, spendthrift

«It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.»

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Health | Keywords: miser, spendthrift

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