| 1. | This complaint, however, of the scarcity of money, is not always confined to improvident spendthrifts. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 2. | She hired a little room and furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering trace of her improvident ways. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | Such nations are always strangers to every sort of luxury, and great wealth can scarce ever be dissipated among them by improvident profusion. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |