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To: atrocitor

"Those who made the laws have apparently supposed, that every deficiency of payment is the crime of the debtor. But the truth is, that the creditor always shares the act, and often more than shares the guilt, of improper trust. It seldom happens that any man imprisons another but for debts which he suffered to be contracted in hope of advantage to himself, and for bargains in which proportioned his own profit to his own opinion of the hazard; and there is no reason, why one should punish the other for a contract in which both concurred."


62 posted on 04/20/2005 3:00:53 PM PDT by chas1776
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To: chas1776

What's this a quote from?


64 posted on 04/20/2005 3:02:14 PM PDT by atrocitor
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