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- George Borrow: English writer of novels and travel books
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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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.
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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
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Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
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Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.
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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.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
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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.
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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.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
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It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (1823) XXXIII -
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.
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Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
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