William Penn: Combine frugality with liberality

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“Frugality is good if liberality be join’d with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need.”

William Penn (1644-1718) as quoted in Less is More, ed. Goldian VanderBroeck (New York: Harper & Row, 1978) 223.