Light come, light go, says the proverb; and the ordinary tone of expense seems everywhere to be regulated, not so much according to the real ability of spending, as to the supposed facility of getting money to spend.

谚语说，光来光去；普通的消费基调似乎无处不在，与其说是根据实际的支出能力，不如说是根据假设的赚钱便利来支出。