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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.
'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; read more
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of read more
Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic
