“This I did to prevent expences, for … a penny sav'd, is a penny got.”
Edward Ravenscroft (1654–1707) English dramatist
The Canterbury Guests: or, a bargain broken (1695), Act II, scene iv.
“And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains”
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