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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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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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease
to ask of me. He who read more

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.

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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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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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He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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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.

by Isaac D'israeli 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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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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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,

by Thomas Tusser Found in: Borrowing Quotes,
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