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Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing read more
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.
Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.
Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
What question can be here? Your own true heart
Must needs advise you of the only part:
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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.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge read more
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to
borrow, rather than to lend him read more
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.
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
He who borrows sells his freedom.
He who borrows sells his freedom.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.