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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
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The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
Source: Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
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Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
Source: Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 75 -
Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.
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He that dies pays all debts.
Source: The tempest (1611) -
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
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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.
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The street's alive as secret debts are paid,
Contacts made, they vanished unseen.
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
Hustling for the record machine.
The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.Source: Born To Run (1975) Jungleland -
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Source: Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (1964 edition), Atlantic Monthly Press -
[On war debts incurred by foreign nations to the United States:] They hired the money, didn't they?
Source: c. 1925. Wit and Wisdom (1933) -
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
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