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frugal to the point of stinginess “So you are just parsimonious with your words?”1 This may prove me as parsimonious as my father, but who spends that much money on corny inflatable light-up Santa Clauses and spinning, singing reindeer?2 Instead, my parsimonious father launches into a ten-minute-long lecture about how working for a living is hard and kids today don’t get it because they’re given allowances they don’t earn.2 Despite the inflow of cash and capital assets, Lawrence kept a parsimo...