The term "parsimonious" has been used in literature to convey a range of attitudes toward frugality, from honorable simplicity to pejorative stinginess. For instance, Bartolomé de las Casas highlights a kind of austere, almost ascetic frugality with his depiction of holy desert dwellers [1], while Alexandre Dumas employs the term in a more personal and critical manner to suggest a perceived miserliness [2]. Edgar Allan Poe extends this notion by presenting a character whose extreme reluctance to take risks mirrors an excessive, perhaps unhealthy, frugality [3], a quality also ascribed, albeit with a familial twist, by Charles Dickens in his characterization of a thrifty progenitor [4]. John Milton and Benito Pérez Galdós further underscore the idea of strict, reserved self-restraint by referring to such a disposition in compact, almost proverbial ways [5, 6], and William H. Ukers points out the peculiarity of simple and undersized habits associated with parsimonious behavior [7]. Overall, these examples illustrate how the word can serve both as a marker of virtuous simplicity and as a subtle indictment of excessive or misguided thrift.