| It is, however, in a sad state of repair, and the evidences of neglect and thriftlessness are apparent everywhere. |
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| They are not the only body to be concerned about the thriftlessness of the young. |
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| Owing to her father's thriftlessness, she had to earn her living by teaching. |
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| For many years he endured galling poverty, which could not be charged to indolence or thriftlessness. |
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| The Pharisees who preach that poverty is due to laziness and thriftlessness, and the fanatics who attribute it to drink, are for the moment silent. |
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| Thrift and thriftlessness mean the same thing in this town, where I noticed that even Nonconformist chapels, with broken windows, had been left to the rats and birds. |
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