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Admiration's (n.) mother is ignorance.
The Credit system (n.) is £300 million of liabilities payable on demand in a coin of the realm that totals £23 million — a state that may throw us into convulsions at any moment.
Danger (n.) is the spur of all great minds.
Debt (n.) is contracted between great merchants who never dream of paying it in sovereigns; they expect to pay it at the Clearing House.
Envy (n.) is like a fly that passes all a body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Export (n.) on credit means the goods are symbolized in transit, a bill drawn against them before they arrive.
Flattery (n.) looks like friends, as wolves like dogs.
Greatness (n.) is impossible without goodness — They're only truly great who are truly good.