“Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after.”

—  Joyce Brothers

As quoted in On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes (2004) by Paula Munier, p. 69

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