A Stitch in Time, Saves Nine

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“The house-wife plies her needle and her thread, / Long after idle people are in bed; / The rent is small, but she full well doth know, / That little rents to larger ones will grow."—Barber, 1857

Keywords

sewing, Stitch, proverb, kproverb, metaphor, a stitch in time saves nine, housewise

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Spinning, Sewing, and Mending

Source

Barber, John W. The Handbook of Illustrated Proverbs (New York, NY: George F. Tuttle, 1857)

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