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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

Quotes

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

Benjamin Franklin · Letter to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789 · Primary source

“If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Lend money to an enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a friend and thou’lt lose him.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

Benjamin Franklin · The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1771-1790 · Primary source

“If a man owns land, the land owns him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Wealth, 1860 · Primary source

“Best use of money is to pay debts.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Wealth, 1860 · Primary source

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Debt 15 Credit 2 Repayment 4 Financial responsibility 6 Borrowing 3 Social avoidance 1 Relationships 8 Lending 1 Friendship 16 Lying 1 Honesty 11 Kindness 7 Favour 2 Reciprocity 11 Social bonds 1 Death 2 Taxes 1 Certainty 4 Mortality 30 Property 5 Ownership 2 Responsibility 27 Wealth 13 Money 6 Economic independence 2