...huizen ah kastelen — literally, "Thriftiness with diligence builds houses like castles"; freely, "Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." people of whatever income routinely put their once-used teabag in a little dish set out...

...linguistic voluntarism [...]« 33 Es handelt sich um die Parodie eines Sprichwortes, wie Gardner feststellt: »Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.« (The Annotated Alice, aaO, S. 121) le to think of the word. >I mean to get under the...

...us. And there is a glaring contradiction in the line itself, for it is coined on the English proverb "Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." So the line is made possible not by the sense it is supposed to convey, but by following...