"Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
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“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.”
“When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.”
“The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.”
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