Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.
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Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.
- Thomas Tusser,

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.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do read more

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
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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.

The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.

The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

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.

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents
besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not read more

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.

Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic
virtue.

Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic
virtue.