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Virtue and Vice
211. Frugality
Talking of a penurious gentleman of our acquaintance, Johnson
said, "Sir, he is narrow, not so much from avarice, as from
impotence to spend his money. He cannot find in his heart to
pour out a bottle of wine; but he would not much care if it
should sour."
Boswell: Life
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