Apr 17, 2009
Time Never Passes
...it simply amasses
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"The cry of hard times & scarcity of money, which is heard in every part of our country, is not without cause...The Banks, in loaning so profusely, have acted most unwisely, and along with their debtors, must now expiate, by privation and retrenchment, for their ill-timed liberality. Nothing but a combination of Industry and Economy, with reasonable forbearance by creditors, can save from ruin thousands, who till lately basked in the sunshine of prosperity, and have rushed heedlessly into debt."
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"The cry of hard times & scarcity of money, which is heard in every part of our country, is not without cause...The Banks, in loaning so profusely, have acted most unwisely, and along with their debtors, must now expiate, by privation and retrenchment, for their ill-timed liberality. Nothing but a combination of Industry and Economy, with reasonable forbearance by creditors, can save from ruin thousands, who till lately basked in the sunshine of prosperity, and have rushed heedlessly into debt."
-- The Southern Recorder, Feb. 22, 1820, pg. 3.