I name next a word that it requires some courage to utter these days—the word of economy. It is like a echo from the distant period of my early life.… - William Ewart Gladstone

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I name next a word that it requires some courage to utter these days—the word of economy. It is like a echo from the distant period of my early life. The wealth of the country, and the vast comparative diffusion of comfort, has, I am afraid, put public economy, at least in its more rigid and severe forms, sadly out of countenance.