"Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!"
— Money

January 1, 1970

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Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), Stanza 13. FitzGerald's translation. ("Promise" for "credit"; "Music" for "rumble" in 2nd ed). Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 521-24.