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“Penny wise, pound foolish.”
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1c29dbb059c9e091c590cb8ea10812a179e2cf5073dc6d162360700d1aa342f5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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