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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.

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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.

by Kin Hubbard Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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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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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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