take the cash and let the credit go

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释义与例句

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    Exploit and enjoy the opportunities and pleasures available here and now and do not invest effort pursuing prospective future gratifications.

    Why not "take the cash and let the credit go"? Why pursue the elusive theoretical "unification" any further, when what we daily get from our sciences is an increasing wealth of detailed information and of practical guidance?

    "Take the cash and let the credit go," as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.