Quote by Thomas Carlyle
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in rai

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. – Thomas Carlyle

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle

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Silence
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. – Thomas Carlyle

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Perfection
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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. – Thomas Carlyle

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Pleasure
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Debt / Borrow / Loan
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A mans indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. – Ruth Benedict

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. – Charles Dickens

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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