As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, May 1776 (1791).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.