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"Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution."
"If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly."
"He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency."
"If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it."
"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
"People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures."
"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."
"No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies."
"Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells."
"We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it."
"As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted."
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause."
"When I was young, people lived paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment."
"Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them."
"But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis."
"Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view."
"It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit."
"In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit."
"Credit is money of the mind."
"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."
