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Dave Ramsey: Abraham Lincoln’s debt letter to his brother 大卫拉姆齐：亚伯拉罕林肯债务的信给他的弟弟

Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to His Deadbeat Brother who needed to get a job, instead of borrowing more money … 亚伯拉罕林肯的信，他拍兄弟谁需要找到工作，而不是借贷更多的钱...

Dear Johnston:–亲爱的约翰斯顿： -

Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to comply with now.您要求的80美元，我不认为它最好地符合现在。

At the various times when I have helped you a little, you have said to me, “We can get along very well now,” but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again.在各种时候，我已经帮你一点，你对我说， “我们可以相处得很好现在， ”但在很短的时间我觉得你在同一困难了。

Now this can only happen by some defect in your conduct.现在，这只能发生的一些缺陷的行为。 What that defect is, I think I know.什么是缺陷，我想我知道。 You are not _lazy_, and still you _are_ an _idler_.您还没有_lazy_ ，还有你_are_一个_idler_ 。 I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day’s work, in any one day.我怀疑是否因为我看到了你，你已经做了很好的一整天的工作，在任何一天。 You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it.你不十分喜欢的工作，仍然你不工作了，只是因为它似乎没有你，你能为它多。

This habit of uselessly wasting time, is the whole difficulty; and it is vastly important to you,and still more so to your children, that you should break this habit.这种习惯的不必要浪费时间，是整个困难;这是很大很重要的你，更加使你的孩子，你要打破这个习惯。 It is more important to them, because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it easier than they can get out after they are in.更重要的是他们，因为他们有较长的生活，并能保持在一个闲置的习惯，才更容易在比他们能得到后，他们英寸

You are now in need of some ready money; and what I propose is,that you shall go to work, “tooth and nail,” for somebody who will give you money for it.您现在需要准备一些钱;什么，我建议是，你应去工作， “牙齿和指甲， ”为别人谁给你钱的。 Let father and your boys take charge of things at home–prepare for a crop, and make the crop; and you go to work for the best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you owe, that you can get.让父亲和您的孩子负责的事情在家里，准备作物，使作物;和你去工作的最佳货币工资，或在履行任何债务你欠，你能。 And to secure you a fair reward for your labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between this and the first of next May, get for your own labor either in money or in your own indebtedness, I will then give you one other dollar.并确保你一个公平回报你的劳动，我现在向你们保证，为每1美元你会之间，这一点，并首次在明年5月，获得自己的劳动无论在金钱或在自己的债务，然后，我将让您另外一个美元。

By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work.通过这一点，如果你在自己租10块钱一个月，从我你会得到10个以上，使21美元，一个月的工作。 In this, I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the lead mines, or the gold mines, in California, but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get close to home, in Coles County.在此，我并不意味着你应去圣路易斯，或导致地雷，或金矿，在加州，但我的意思是你去它最好的工资，您可以亲近在家中，在科尔斯县。

Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again.现在，如果你愿意这样做，你将很快摆脱债务，什么是更好，你将有一个习惯，将让你获得的债务了。 But if I should now clear you out, next year you will be just as deep in as ever.但是如果我现在应该明确你，明年你将一样深如昔。

You say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $70 or $80.你说你几乎让您在天堂为70美元或80美元。 Then you value your place in Heaven very cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months’ work.然后，你的价值你的位置在天堂非常便宜，因为我相信你能与我提供你第七十一或80美元， 4个或5个月的工作。

You say if I furnish you the money you will deed me the land, and if you don’t pay the money back, you will deliver possession–Nonsense!你说如果我提供你的钱你会契据我的土地，如果你不付的钱再要回来，你将拥有，废话！ If you can’t now live _with_ the land, how will you then live without it?如果你不能_with_现在生活的土地，你将会如何生活然后呢？

You have always been kind to me, and I do not now mean to be unkind to you.你一直对我客气，我现在并不意味着要对你不客气。 On the contrary, if you will but follow my advice, you will find it worth more than eight times eighty dollars to you.相反，如果你愿意，但按照我的意见，你会发现，总价值超过8倍八十美元给你。

Affectionately your brother,你的兄弟深情，
A. LINCOLN.字母a.林肯。