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[Ray Woodcock]

Browsing in Bartlett's, I found this gem, of great relevance for the
fundamental change in social attitudes that I expect to see, over the
next half-dozen years, toward the subject of student loan repayment:

"Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period, but wakes up in
adversity."

Not that the courts, ever lagging, are apt to be in the vanguard of
this postulated change.