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Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
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Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
Artemus Ward
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The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the
lender.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 7)
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Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents
besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is
that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.
Isaac D'Israeli
Quotes , Source: Curiosities of Literature--The Bibliomania
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to
borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only
the half.
Marcus Valerius Martial
Quotes , Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 75)
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You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand
sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one
else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay
you, Phoebus, is my own.
Marcus Valerius Martial
Quotes , Source: Epigrams (bk. IX, ep. 102)
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease
to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have
nothing to refuse.
Marcus Valerius Martial
Quotes , Source: Epigrams (bk. XII, ep. 79)
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Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic
virtue.
Francois Rabelais
Quotes , Source: Pantagruel (bk. III, ch. IV)
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What question can be here? Your own true heart
Must needs advise you of the only part:
That may be claim'd again which was but lent,
And should be yielded with no discontent,
Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,
That it was left us to enjoy it long.
Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench
Quotes , Source: The Lent Jewels
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Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.
- Thomas Tusser,
Thomas Tusser
Quotes , Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--September's Abstract, first lines also in June's Abstract
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb
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If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
Benjamin Franklin
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