So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt. I could hardly begin but Herbert must begin too, so he soon followed.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 34. Pip reveals that reckless spending and living beyond his means has left him with considerable debts. As he squanders the fortune left to him by his mystery benefactor, his roommate Herbert also overspends and goes into debt.