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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

— P. T. Barnum

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

— Phil McGraw

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

— George Herbert

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

— Margaret Atwood

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.

— Paul Krugman

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

— Jill Scott

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

— George Osborne

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

— Martha Plimpton

✗Opposing Perspectives

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

— Roger Ebert

I have never had personal debt and never will.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

— Mark Caine