Dear musick: I seem to remember a Scottish saying: "Many a mickle makes a muckle."

mick[le 7mik4!l8
adj., adv., n.
5ME (Northern) mikel < OE micel, infl. by ON mikell: for IE base see MUCH6 [Now Chiefly Scot.] much


Many a mickle [July 1999; 2-1]
... and cost. The old Scottish proverb tells us that "many a mickle makes a muckle"
- understandable if it is the same as looking after the pennies. The point is ...
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