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title: "10 Prodigality Quotes by 9 authors"
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> [Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/prodigality-of-time-produces-poverty-of-mind-as-well-as-of-estate/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/letitia-elizabeth-landon/there-is-nothing-so-easy-as-to-be-wise-for-others-a-species-of/)

[Letitia Elizabeth Landon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/letitia-elizabeth-landon/)

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> [Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/great-nations-are-never-impoverished-by-private-though-they-sometimes/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

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> [Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/gaming-is-the-child-of-avarice-but-the-parent-of-prodigality/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/if-time-be-of-all-things-the-most-precious-wasting-time-must-be-the/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/confucius/the-injury-of-prodigality-leads-to-this-that-he-who-will-not/)

[Confucius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/confucius/)

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> [Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/passions-often-produce-their-contraries-avarice-sometimes-leads-to/)

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)

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> [The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-passions-do-very-often-give-birth-to-others-of-a-nature-most/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-taylor/prodigality-is-indeed-the-vice-of-a-weak-nature-as-avarice-is-of-a/)

[Henry Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-taylor/)

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> [Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/corrupt-influence-is-itself-the-perennial-spring-of-all-prodigality/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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