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Extravagance

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Penny wise, pound foolish.

Robert Burton

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Any man who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can’t afford one.

J. P. Morgan

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So far as my coin would stretch; and where it would not, I have used my credit.

William Shakespeare

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[The prodigal son] wasted his substance with riotous living.

Anonymous

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

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Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Thomas Jefferson

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A farm is like a man—however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.

Marcus Porcius Cato

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A purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning.

William Shakespeare

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