After all, where envy reigns virtue cannot live, and where there is niggardliness there can be no liberality. |
George saw immiserization as the consequence of inappropriate human institutions, not of the inescapable niggardliness of nature as Malthus had claimed. |
There is a kind of niggardliness that mistakes itself for measure, for judgment. |
I was deciding between money and men, between niggardliness and romance. |
When their suspicions of our niggardliness or lack of peanuts had been confirmed, Jones half-turned his back on his life-partner and gave me his story. |