“I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."”

—  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

6 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

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