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NUMBER:9117
QUOTATION:Mere parsimony is not economy.... Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
ATTRIBUTION:Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish philosopher, statesman. A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796), repr. In Works, vol. 5 (1899).
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