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• By today's standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today's U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence.

  Joseph Sobran

  Kings, Impact, Government

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• Faint heart never won fair lady!
  Nothing venture, nothing win
  Blood is thick, but water's thin
  In for a penny, in for a pound
  It's Love that makes the world go 'round!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Heart, Winning, Blood

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.505, Oxford University Press

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• Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Happiness, Happy, Back When

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.97, BookBaby

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• A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out.

  Martin Luther

  Saved, Paid, Values

  "What Luther Says". Book by Martin Luther, Section on "Life, Human," No. 2438, 1959.

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• At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?

  Suze Orman

  Economy, Ends, Objects

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• He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

  Howard Pyle

  Moon, Mud, Leap

  Howard Pyle (2012). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• A penny saved is a penny to squander.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Thrift, Saved

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.210, e-artnow

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• We didn't have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these jobs, like, a penny for a piece, you know, these paper jobs. You know, what really saved me as a human today is my sisters and my mom.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Jobs, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

  Taylor Hanson

  New York, Cities, Empires

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• No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Want, Honest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.55, Rajpal & Sons

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• Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Money, Wings

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.352

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• A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Pins, Dear

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• I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

  Jack Nicholson

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• Who asks a king for a penny?

  Vernon Howard

  Kings, Asks

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

  Josh Billings

  Men, Dollars, Saving

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• If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

  Carl Hubbell

  Winning, Cards, Want

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• I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.

  Camillus de Lellis

  Giving, Paradise, Tiny

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• At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Selfish, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.46, Library of America

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• Work really hard, think carefuly about how you spend every penny, and be absolutely true to your own vision of your clothes and your brand. It has to be personal.

  Patrick Grant

  Thinking, Clothes, Vision

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• A penny saved is better than a penny earned.

  Martin Luther

  Saved

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table talk”

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• For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Equality, Men

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• I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.

  Montel Williams

  College, Trying, Foundation

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• Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Leaving, Solitude

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1994.

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• A penny spar'd is twice got.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.341

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• Make it a policy to know your net worth to the penny.

  T. Harv Eker

  Secret, Policy, Knows

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