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-vide the man between them – each
in turn braving cause & effect ~
Asto [As to] doing good benevolently to God or man
it "never has anything to give" ~

4. Parsimony. The frugality of selfishness
the act of parting with as little as possible,
when some must be parted with.
As sparing as of life-blood. Never gives
anything – only surrenders. If it parts
with aught but to get more – it does it
with a most ill grace & awkward manner.
(J. J. Astor.)

5. Avarice = "Covetousness hoarding". –
miserliness in genuine form. Not very
common – here & there an example. Money
is a compendium of all things – – men get
the world condensed into hard dollars & wor-
-ship it – delight in contem^ng [contemplating] & gazing on it. –
– with the bare possession of such multum in parvo [Latin for "much in little"].