That is why insurance is a better investment than stocks for the purpose you have in mind, Stanley; whatever your business needs, you never can ask your wife to join you in Hypothecating the policy without feeling like a mean heartless sneak.
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Elliott Flower
By the end of '88 the income from the books and the business and Mrs. Clemens's Elmira investments no longer satisfied the demands of the type-setter, in addition to the household expense, reduced though the latter was; and Clemens began by selling and Hypothecating his marketable securities.
"Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009
As the process of wear and tear and abrasion went on in the coins, with lapse of time the custom grew of subdividing or Hypothecating a gold florin of ideally perfect weight and condition as the standard for transactions.
"The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896"
William Arthur Shaw