G. K. Chesterton quote about waste from What's Wrong with the World - Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
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Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
 G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World (1910). copy citation

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“Heaven knows I for one speak disinterestedly in the matter; for I cannot clearly remember saving a half-penny ever since I was born. But the thing is true; economy, properly understood, is the more poetic. Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. It is prosaic to throw money away, because it is prosaic to throw anything away; it is negative; it is a confession of indifference, that is, it is a confession of failure. The most prosaic thing about the house is the dustbin, and the one great objection to the new fastidious and aesthetic homestead is simply that in such a moral menage the dustbin must be bigger than the house.” source

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