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If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
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John Barrymore
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
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Ruth Benedict
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Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
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Josh Billings
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Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
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Josh Billings
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Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
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Dr. Joyce Brothers
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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Pearl S. Buck
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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Lord Byron
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
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Kenneth Clarke
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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
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Charles Dickens
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Debt is the worst poverty.
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Thomas Fuller
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The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
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James Grant
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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James Howell
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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Victor Hugo
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We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.
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Lee Iacocca
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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Thomas Jefferson
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