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«Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide»
«Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I rec»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
courteous, creditor, creditors, digestion, go-slow, meals, special case, square, square meal
«Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Memory
| Keywords:
creditor, creditors, debtors, observers, sect, superstitious
«Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee»
«Creditors have better memories than debtors.»
«CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
creditor, desolating, dreaded, dwelling, financial, incursion, incursions, straits
«Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.»
«And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.»
«He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
An electric, arrivals, at present, bald, bell, boots, chronically, circular, continuous, creditor, creditors, drill, drilling, electric, electric drill, eleven, frustrated, hangover, hangovers, income tax, interruption, interruptions, in red, losing streak, malnutrition, most recent, needless, pair, post, printed, rattle, recent, recently, ringing, schedule, spectacles, stairs, streak, streaked, streaks, telephone, telephone bell, The Arrival, thirty-five, Thirty two, up the stairs, varicose, veins
«A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
creditor, owner, owns, slave owner, the Master
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