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In its essence it belongs to the Old Comedy, but in the sparingness of personal satire, and in the mild tone which prevails throughout, we may trace an approximation to the Middle Comedy.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

It is not your sin—it is your self-satisfaction that crieth unto heaven; your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Parsimony, p�r′si-mun-i, n. sparingness in the spending of money: frugality: niggardliness.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Books are cold, jejune, vexatious in their sparingness of information at one time and their impertinent loquacity at another.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

Habits of modesty and of sparingness might perhaps deprive the world of as much wealth as they would save.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon