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“Beauty is scandalous sir! It takes away a man's reason and cedes him unreasonable fervor. For you see sir! A man profligate as me; has found in this destitution that a reasonable man is more likely to lead a content life. That's the best a man can be sir, content. Especially an eternally dejected man, such as myself. Who has lost his ability to be pleased.”

Literature Beauty Books Despair Contentment Morose Dostoevsky Profligacy Soliloquy

Author:Teufel Damon

“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.”

Profligacy Economy Of Nature

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Whenever one feels like saying “the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector”“, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.”

Money Greed Nuclear Weapons Billionaire Public Sector Profligacy

Book:The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty

Source: The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty

“Kynes passed an unreadable glance across Bewt, said: 'It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.”

Profligacy Kynes

Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“I can't believe you're being so profligate already. Being so what? she said. Profligate, I said. You are bullying me with words longer than the length of my life, she said.”

Language Words Bullying Vocabulary Profligacy

Book:Gliff

Source: Gliff