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“It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts—you have no idea of the pain it gives one.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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