improvidence

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Improvidence ought as much as possible to be discouraged; for, with those who labour hard and are indigent, the desire to gratify some pressing want, or present appetite, is continually uppermost. 

From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by Playfair, William

Improvidence seems to be one of the most incorrigible of faults.

From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel

Rose-gardens 78   Of Improvidence in Marriage in the Middle Classes; nd of the advisable Restrictions of it.

From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by Ruskin, John

Improvidence is too tame a word for it—it is recklessness; here young and old, married and unmarried, are uniformly and almost avowedly self-indulgent spendthrifts.

From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel

Improvidence is the rule: there is little effort to meet remote contingencies.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert