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Quote by Horace Walpole
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw

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

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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole

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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – Horace Walpole

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A pig bought on credit is forever grunting. – Proverb

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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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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A person who cant pay gets another person who cant pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It dont make either of them able to do a walking-match. – Charles Dickens

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