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1995. DEBT, Avoiding.—[continued].

The maxim of buying
nothing without the money in our pockets to
pay for it, would make of our country one of
the happiest on earth. Experience during the
war proved this; and I think every man will
remember, that under all the privations it
obliged him to submit to during that period,
he slept sounder, and awoke happier than he
can do now.—
To A. Donald. Washington ed. ii, 193. Ford ed., iv, 414.
(P. 1787)