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Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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"If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too."

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"It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay."

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"I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them."

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"I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do."

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"She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted."

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"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too."

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"Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances."

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"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much."

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Asa Don Brown

"Debt is great source of inner unhappiness."

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Asa Don Brown

"While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans."

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"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
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"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."
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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
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"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
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"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
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"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."
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