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Confucius Quotes: Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
         

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.


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