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  Money not spent is money that is in one's pocket.
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  What one does not spend, one will have. This maxim for thrift is so familiar that it often appears in shortened form, as in Although they can afford to buy a house right now, they're putting it off, on the principle of “a penny saved.” It appeared in slightly different form in George Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs (1640). Whether or not it originally suggested that savings earn interest is not known.

A penny saved is a penny earned

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1. Money not spent is money that is in one's pocket.

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penny saved is a penny earned, a Idioms  

1. What one does not spend, one will have. This maxim for thrift is so familiar that it often appears in shortened form, as in Although they can afford to buy a house right now, they're putting it off, on the principle of “a penny saved.” It appeared in slightly different form in George Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs (1640). Whether or not it originally suggested that savings earn interest is not known.

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A penny saved is a penny earned

A penny saved is a penny earned, after all.

From Slate ● May 26, 2016

The house's interior is handsome but spare, reflecting the thrifty nature of the man who popularized the proverb, "A penny saved is a penny earned."

From Time Magazine Archive

This may not be quite so succinct an aphorism as "A penny saved is a penny earned," but it ought nonetheless to be incised in stone somewhere--a business school, perhaps.

From Time Magazine Archive

What ever happened to "A penny saved is a penny earned"?

From Time Magazine Archive