Cnr.iHT.—lf youth but knew the fatal misery they arc entailing on themselves the moment they accept a pecuniary credit to which they are not entitled, how they would start m their carecr I how pale they would turn ! how* thev would tremble and clasp their hands in agony at the precipice on which they are disporting • Debt is the prolific mother of folly and crime; it taints tlie course of life in all its streams. Hence so many unhappy marriages, so many prostituted pons, and venal politicians; it. hath a small beginning, hut a giant's growth and strength. "When we make tho monster, we make our master, who haunts us at all iwvp'S and shakes his whip of scorpions forever m our sight.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 268, 21 September 1864, Page 6
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