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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Traps
Sets
Debt
Gets
Men
Baits
Bait
Trap
Deliberately

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