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"Your creditor has authority at his pleasure to deprive you of your liberty, by confining you in gaol [jail] for life, or to sell you for a servant, if you should not be able to pay him! When you have got your bargain, you may, perhaps, think little of payment; but creditors, Poor Richard tells us, have better memories than debtors, and in another place says, creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. The day comes round before you are aware, and the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it. Or if you bear your debt in mind, the term which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens, appear extreamly short. Time will seem to have added wings to his heels as well as shoulders."

by:
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) US Founding Father
Source:
The Way to Wealth (1758)

 
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