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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.
I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.
To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese and so on.
My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.