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THRIFT is a great revenue
Cf. CICERO
Paradox
49
non intellegunt homines quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia
, men do not realize how great a revenue thrift is.
1659
Proverbs
(French) 15
Parsimony is the best revenue.
1855
Hand-Book of Proverbs
530
Thrift is a good revenue.
1930
Times
10 Oct. 13
Thrift .. is not only a great virtue but also ‘a great revenue.’
thrift
He that will THRIVE must first ask his wife
a
1500
in
Early English Carols
(1935 276
Hym that cast hym for to thryve, he must ask leve of his wyff.
c
1549
Dialogue of Proverbs
I
. xi. B8
V
He that will thryue, must aske leaue of his wyfe.
a
1790
Autobiography
(1905) I. 324
He that would thrive, must ask his wife. It was lucky for me that I had one as much dispos'd to industry and frugality as myself.
1875
Thrift
viii.
There is an old English proverb which says, ‘He that would thrive must first ask his wife.’
wives and husbands

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