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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.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
