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Owing A Debt Quotes

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Thomas Jefferson
Money, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Ogden Nash
Fun, Debt Free, Owing A Debt
"The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash".

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce
Debtors, Owing A Debt, Forgetful
Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.38, Courier Corporation

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

Publilius Syrus
Enemy, Debtors, Owing A Debt

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Ambrose Bierce
Ties, Debtors, Owing A Debt
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.40, 谷月社

..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 may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

George Washington
War, Government Debt, Owing A Debt
George Washington, William Jackson (1838). “Monuments of Washington's Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.16

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