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Updated: May 31, 2025
"We are not great people at all," he said: "we are only common honest people people that pay our debts." Hazlitt, who was a thoroughly honest though rather thriftless man, speaks of two classes of persons, not unlike each other those who cannot keep their own money in their hands, and those who cannot keep their hands from other people's.
"You always were a thriftless fellow; you must have been wasting your fire. Oh, I say, what's the row in the rear?" "The column, most likely. It's time, too. Those fellows would be on us in a minute. Ah ha!" And Weldon drew a quick breath of admiration, as the guns came up at the gallop under the watchful eye of the Imperial Yeomanry.
I take shame to say that in our capital such and so various are the means of thriftless folly, that to give gold to youth is giving fuel to fire, and furnishing them with the means of self-destruction. If I live and reign, these means of unchristian excess shall be abridged. Yet thou mayest be poor," she added, "or thy parents may be.
Thriftless Jim Brandon, in a spasm of industry, began work on the abandoned mine, and for a while he made it pay, for he got money and squared accounts with his creditors; but after a time it appeared that somebody else was working on the claim, for every morning he found that the sluice had been tampered with and the water turned on.
Mortimer's display and presumption outdid even poor Piers Gaveston: he had one hundred and eighty knights in his own train alone, and their dress was so fantastically gay that the Scots jested on them, and made rhymes long current in the North: "Longbeards, heartless, Gay coats, graceless, Painted hoods, witless, Maketh England thriftless."
The people have a slow, slouching, shabby appearance; and the traveler is forcibly reminded, by the strange costumes he meets at every turn the thriftless and degenerate aspect of the laboring classes the great lumbering wagons that roll over the stone-paved streets the droskies rattling hither and thither with their grave, priest-like drivers and wild horses the squads of filthy soldiers lounging idly at every corner the markets and market-places, and all that gives interest to the scene, that he is in a foreign land a wild land of fierce battles between the elements, and fiercer still between men where civilization is ever struggling between Oriental barbarism and European profligacy.
Those who are careless about personal expenditure, and consider merely their own gratification, without regard for the comfort of others, generally find out the real uses of money when it is too late. Though by nature generous, these thriftless persons are often driven in the end to do very shabby things.
The building or the repairing of houses among us employ many hands, because often a thriftless heir suffers a house that his father built to fall into decay, so that his successor must, at a great cost, repair that which he might have kept up with a small charge; it frequently happens that the same house which one person built at a vast expense is neglected by another, who thinks he has a more delicate sense of the beauties of architecture, and he, suffering it to fall to ruin, builds another at no less charge.
This excludes the numbers of thriftless and otherwise helpless poor whose work is variable, and who, at the best, can earn only the lowest possible wages as unskilled laborers.
To Tom Tot we gave the handling of the fish and stores, resolving, also, to stand upon his judgment in the matter of dealing supplies to the thriftless and the unfortunate, whether generously or with a sparing hand, for the men of our harbour were known to him, every one, in strength and conscience and will for toil. I would not have you think us unfeeling. God knows, we were not that!
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