Austere
Austerity is the reduction of a national government's spending as part of a plan to pay back creditors.
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Famous quotes containing the word austere:
“Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)
“Among austere men intimacy involves shame—and is something precious.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)