Many a Mickle makes a Muckle

or Many a little makes a mickle. Little and often fills the purse. (See LittlÉ.

French: “Les petits ruisseaux font de grandes rivières;” “Plusieurs peu font un beaucoup.”

“Eι γαρ κεν και σμικρoν επι σμικρω καταθεια,

Kαι θαμα τoυτʹ ἑρδoιζ, ταχα κεν μεγα και τo

γενoιτo.” Hesiod: Works and Days, 359, etc.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.