See take the cash and let the credit go in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1872, Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám:",
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"ref": "1898, Henry Harland, “Merely Players”, in Comedies and Errors, page 52:",
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"ref": "1913, Josiah Royce, in Introduction to The Foundations of Science by Henri Poincaré, authorized translation by George Bruce Halsted, (text at Project Gutenberg)",
"text": "Why not \"take the cash and let the credit go\"? Why pursue the elusive theoretical \"unification\" any further, when what we daily get from our sciences is an increasing wealth of detailed information and of practical guidance?"
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"ref": "1927, Irving Babbit, “Buddha and the Occident”, in On Literature, Cultures, and Religion, published 2006, →ISBN, page 251:",
"text": "[N]o religious teacher was ever more opposed than Buddha in his scheme of salvation to every form of postponement and procrastination. He would have his followers take the cash and let the credit go—though the cash in this case is not the immediate pleasure but the immediate peace.",
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"ref": "1946 January 28, “Education: Violator”, in Time, retrieved 2014-08-03:",
"text": "William Harding Johnson, $15,000-a-year superintendent of Chicago's school system, has been content to take the cash and let the credit go. He has made good money by co-authoring textbooks for Chicago's schools and from his tutoring school for teachers.",
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"text": "\"Take the cash and let the credit go,\" as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime."
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