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" Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money. "
Illustrations of Lying, in All Its Branches - Page 187
by Amelia Opie - 1827 - 283 pages
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On the Importance of an Early Correct Education of Children: Embracing the ...

William Euen - 1848 - 164 pages
...stuff life is made of. 4. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 5. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. 6. The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and there is sleeping enough in the grave. 7. Lost...
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The Rival Beauties: A Novel, Volume 3

Miss Pardoe (Julia) - 1848 - 332 pages
...interest for it ; unquestionable security ; you may trust me. But be saving, Gertrude ; be saving. ' Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves, as poor Richard says.' But what do you want to do with part of it, child ? What can you...
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Rural Repository, Volumes 24-25

1848 - 420 pages
...another pounding." — " Pound away you fool. Me and Dr. Franklin agrees, Dr. Franklin says : '• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of thcmslevcs." A SAD MISTAKE. — A certain lady had a custom of saying to a favorite little dog, to...
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A Manual of Logic

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1849 - 184 pages
...that blows nobody good. — Tread on a worm, and it wttl turn. — Penny wise and pound foolish. — Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. — Good words cost nothing. — Better lose a jest than a friend. — Pardon others, but...
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Lessons on industrial education, for the use of female schools [ed.] by a ...

Lessons - 1849 - 244 pages
...you buy ; be frugal ; and, if possible, never get into debt, or rely upon the charity of others. " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." Do not become weekly customers for your provisions, coals, or clothing, but secure the...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 7-8

1854 - 672 pages
...hours, and this amounts to a large sum of waste tune in a week. You will have heard the old saying, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." As it is with money, so it is with time. " Take care of the minutes, and the hours will...
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Parental Wisdon: Or, The Philosophy and Social Bearings of Education, with ...

John Antrobus - 1849 - 336 pages
...hence may reap, in succession, all the various advantages that the most perfect system could produce. " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," is an old and trite maxim, that holds equally true of education ; and the parent who covets...
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The Soul's welfare, Volumes 1-3

1850 - 642 pages
...manifest to observing minds. Hence many of the sage maxims of our "proverbial philosophy," such as "Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves ;" "Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves." The principle...
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Christian Treasury, Volume 5

1850 - 632 pages
...or enjoy. — if. T. Ег-апдсЫ. "TRIFLES." THE principle involved in the maxim of Franklin, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," is universally just, and susceptible of quite other applications than the philosopher...
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Elementary Lessons, Being a Course of Instruction for the Deaf & Dumb, Part 3

Harvey Prindle Peet - 1850 - 278 pages
...done in order to state the consequences. Flatter a child, and you will be sure to please its mother. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. Set a little boy on horseback, and he will perhaps break his neck. " Train up a child in...
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