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Familiar Quotations

Debtors

Creditors have better memories than debtors. And creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.–Benjamin Franklin

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.–James Howell

A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.–Irish Proverb

Use in Literature

Debtors

The next Saturday evening, Mr. Merrill waited in vain for a call from his debtor.–Horatio Alger in Bound to Rise (Or, Up the Ladder).

And Grasper made a motion to turn from his debtor.–T.S. Arthur in Lessons in Life, For All Who Will Read Them.

I know of several who have gone through the debtors' mill, and yet not come forth penniless; and some of them, I know, would not be guilty of false swearing.–T.S. Arthur in Off-Hand Sketches.

Mr. Jenkins, we are sorry to say, was not of that class of debtors who never consider an obligation morally cancelled.–T.S. Arthur in Off-Hand Sketches.

On returning, he would glide along close to the houses, and enter quickly his own door. By this carefulness to avoid meeting his old debtor, Grasper managed not to come into direct contact with him for some time.–T.S. Arthur in Lessons in Life, For All Who Will Read Them.

Still, they should be considered as some extenuation in a debtor, and at least exempt him from unnecessarily harsh treatment.–T.S. Arthur in Lessons in Life, For All Who Will Read Them.

The latter never knew how much they stood his debtor.–T.S. Arthur in Words for the Wise.

There was, too, something deeply humiliating in his condition of an imprisoned debtor.–T.S. Arthur in Home Lights and Shadows.

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Debtors 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Debtors 2
• Debtors – "Arrest" 10
• Debtors – "Being" 11
• Debtors – "Creditor" 11
• Debtors – "Debt" 13
• Debtors – "Finding" 15
• Debtors – "Greater" 15
• Debtors – "Law" 16
• Debtors – "Life" 17
• Debtors – "Men" 17
• Debtors – "Money" 19
• Debtors – "Paris" 19
• Debtors – "Pay" 20
• Debtors – "Place" 21
• Debtors – "Poor" 21
• Debtors – "Prisons" 22
• Debtors – "Serve" 23
• Debtors – "Shall" 23
• Debtors – "Think" 24
• Debtors – "World" 25
• Nonfiction Usage 26
• Historical Usage 26
• Bible Usage 26
• Journalism Usage 26
• Legal Usage 28
• Governmental Usage 33
• Bibliographic Usage 36
• Encyclopedic Usage 62
• Lexicographic Usage 64
• Index 80