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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.


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JOSH BILLINGS A million dollars in pennies is still a million dollars.
ANTONIO BRYANT This business is about turning pennies into dollars and that's what they're trying to do.
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ERIN CAMPBELL Youth should be a savings bank.
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ANDREW CARNEGIE It is only those that persist saving their pennies that can become rich in naira,dollars & pound ste...
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BOB UHLENKOTT (If) the economy is growing at a healthy rate, you can easily accommodate a higher rate of savings. ...
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LAWRENCE SUMMERS It's going to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars savings to the American taxpayers,
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JOSH BILLINGS Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
JOSH BILLINGS Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
JOSH BILLINGS Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy a...
JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
JOSH BILLINGS Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's ...
JOSH BILLINGS As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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