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better go to bed supperless than rise in debt better to give than to lend borrowed garments never fit borrowed pots are apt to leak borrowing isn't much better than begging the creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times creditors have better memories than debtors debt is the worst kind of poverty the early man never borrows from the late man great spenders are bad lenders he that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing if you want to know the value of money, try borrowing some if you would lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money lend and lose is the game of fools lend your money and lose your friend neither a borrower nor a lender be omittance is no quittance out of debts, out of danger owe no man anything a small debt makes a debtor, a heavy one an enemy speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them
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