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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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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle

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Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. – Kenneth Clarke

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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts — you have no idea of the pain it gives one. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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