| Alfonzo Gardiner - 1884 - 186 pages
...reach a station, how long would it take at the rate of T7T of a mile per minute ? COMPOSITION. — " Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves." Write a letter to a boy younger than yourself telling him the meaning of this proverb,... | |
| Alexander Maclaren - 1884 - 368 pages
...while we are preparing for the big events which we think worthy of being regulated by lofty principles. Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves. Look after the trifles, for the law of life is like that which is laid down by the Psalmist... | |
| William Arnot - 1884 - 262 pages
...historical changes when they come. The proverb about the management of money is applicable here : " Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves." He who in youth trains his eye to mark ' well the features of small objects, will be able... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - Parables - 1885 - 728 pages
...Many a nrickle makes a mucMe." "Little and little fills the purse;" therefore, says the proverb, " Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves." And the old proverb says, in language almost obsolete, "A pin a day makes a groat a year."... | |
| Home economics - 1886 - 344 pages
...familiar sayings inculcate saving, not only of money, as " a penny saved is a penny earned " and " take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves," but of time, as shown by the last quotation with the nouns changed viz., " take care of the minutes," etc.,... | |
| National Conference on Social Welfare - Charities - 1888 - 508 pages
...they will receive the instruction and discipline in this regard that they need. Poor Richard said, "Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves." I would say : Take care of the children, beginning with the infants and the small children.... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1889 - 406 pages
...Fletcher. "Yes, I know," insisted Mr. Morgan; "it's the modern notion of accumulation and compensation — take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves — the gospel of Benjamin Franklin." "Ah," I said, looking up at the entrance of a new-comer,... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 1038 pages
...Fletcher. "Yes, I know," insisted Mr. Morgan; " it's the modern notion of accumulation and compensation — take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves — the gospel of Benjamin Franklin." "Ah," I said, looking up at the entrance of a new-comer,... | |
| Conduct of life - 1869 - 804 pages
...parts which compose it, be these never so minute. It is only to remember Dr. Franklin's advice : " Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves." There seems to be what is styled " waste " in all things with which we have anything to... | |
| 1892 - 936 pages
...their last analysis by studying them in a well-selected library. The law of financial increase is " take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves." So it is if the young physician utilizes every case in this way his penny of study will... | |
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