 | Miss Pardoe (Julia) - 1848 - 332 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 420 oldal
...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... | |
 | Lessons - 1849 - 244 oldal
...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... | |
 | John Antrobus - 1849 - 336 oldal
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1849 - 184 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1854 - 672 oldal
...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... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1850 - 544 oldal
...another sovereign, and was owed again ; but, trust him, he wasn't going to be cheated out of that : take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. But still it was ditto repeated ; changing, being owed, grudging, grumbling : at last he... | |
 | 1850 - 818 oldal
...the value of time. Labour to improve every minute. There is an old proverb with regard to money, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," implying that those who look narrowly ¡ after small sums, will not be very likely j to... | |
 | 1850 - 642 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 632 oldal
...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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Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money. 
