| 1. | The parsimony which leads to accumulation has become almost as rare in republican as in monarchical governments. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 2. | Independent of this necessity, he is, in such a situation, naturally disposed to the parsimony requisite for accumulation. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 3. | The high rate of profit seems everywhere to destroy that parsimony which, in other circumstances, is natural to the character of the merchant. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 4. | England, however, as it has never been blessed with a very parsimonious government, so parsimony has at no time been the characteristic virtue of its inhabitants. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 5. | Nations, on the contrary, which, like Holland and Hamburgh, are composed chiefly of merchants, artificers, and manufacturers, can grow rich only through parsimony and privation. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 6. | Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates but whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 7. | Among nations, to whom commerce and manufacture are little known, the sovereign, it has already been observed in the Fourth book, is in a situation which naturally disposes him to the parsimony requisite for accumulation. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |