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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breat

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. – Sir Walter Scott

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Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise. – W. Secker

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! – Alexander Pope

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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. – Horace Walpole

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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