BY THE SAME HAND.

Running in debt should not be resorted to but in the last necessity,

412. To avoid it, practise the closest economy, 413. The borrower

is slave to the lender, 414, 415. Usurers are chargeable with

oppression, fraud, and falsehood, 416, 417. They take a man’s money

without an equivalent, 417. It is shameful to be in the power of

another, 418. We incur debt, not to procure necessaries, but to

purchase ornaments and superfluities, 420. We must avoid the usurer

or be ruined, 421-424.

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