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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.

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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.

by Josh Billings Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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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.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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He who borrows sells his freedom.

He who borrows sells his freedom.

by German Proverb Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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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.

by Artemus Ward Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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He who borrows sells his freedom

He who borrows sells his freedom

by German Proverb Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand
sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. read more

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.

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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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the read more

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.

by Charles Lamb Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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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.

by Francois Rabelais Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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