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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.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
-Benjamin Franklin
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If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Debt is the worst poverty.
-Thomas Fuller
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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
-James Grant
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I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
-Jack Handey
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
-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.
-Victor Hugo
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We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.
-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.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
-Samuel Johnson
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When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
-George S. Kaufman
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One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
-Garrison Keillor
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
-Doris Lessing
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Money is a poor man's credit card.
-Marshall McLuhan
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In the midst of life we are in debt.
-Ethel Watts Mumford
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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
-George D. Prentice
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To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
-Matthew Prior
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Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.
-G. Randolf
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You build on cost and you borrow on value.
-Paul Reichmann
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
-Will Rogers, March 1, 1931
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
-Will Rogers
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People cannot live by lending money to one another.
-John Ruskin
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A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.
-Ivan Shaffer
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