“Live within your income; spend less than you get; pay as you go.”

—  Scott Nearing

Attributed to Scott Nearing by Helen Nearing, Loving and Leaving the Good Life (White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1993), p. 104 https://books.google.com/books?id=1pM2aj5YqZkC&pg=PA104

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American activist 1883–1983

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