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  • If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
  • In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
  • Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

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  • Evan Esar Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
    Evan Esar
    American humorist (1899 - 1995)
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  • Booker T. Washington We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Borrow A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bill Gross Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Robert Townsend Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Lord Burleigh Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
    Lord Burleigh
    English statesman
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  • Aaron Sorkin Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • George Borrow I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • B. B. King I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Woodrow Wilson I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • George Borrow If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • B. B. King If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
    Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (1823) XXXIII
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Artemus Ward Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
    Artemus Ward
    American writer (1834 - 1867)
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