Both Uses of
squander
in
Atlas Shrugged
- But with every hour of his life, with the strain and the pride of every moment when his muscles or his mind had ached from effort, with every step he had taken to rise out of the mines of Minnesota and to turn his effort into gold, with all of his profound respect for money and for its meaning, he despised the squanderer who did not know how to deserve the great gift of inherited wealth.†
Chpt 1.6
- A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures, nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws, A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.†
Chpt 3.7 *
Definition:
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(squander) to waste -- money, resources, or opportunities