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Debt

Creditors have better memories than debtors. - Benjamin Franklin.


Industry pays debts, while despair increases them. - Benjamin Franklin.


It is necessary for me to be extremely frugal for some time, till I have paid what I owe. - Benjamin Franklin.


Lying rides upon debt’s back. - Benjamin Franklin.


Rather go to bed supper-less than rise in debt. - Benjamin Franklin.


The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the debtor to the creditor; disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free. - Benjamin Franklin.


The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt. - Benjamin Franklin.


Think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. - Benjamin Franklin.


When nature gave us tears, she gave us leave to weep. A long separation from those who are so near a-kin to us in flesh and blood, will touch the heart in a painful place, and awaken the tenderest springs of sorrow. The sluices must be allowed to be held open a little; nature seems to demand it as a debt to love. - Benjamin Franklin.


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