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LEND your money and lose your friend
1474Game of Chess
(1883) III. iv. 112
And herof speketh Domas the philosopher and sayth that my frende borrowed money of me And I haue lost my frende and my money attones [simultaneously].
1600–1
Hamlet
I.iii. 75
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
1721
Scottish Proverbs Lend your Money, and lose your Friend
.
It is not the lending of our Money that loses our Friend; but the demanding it again.
1960
Enter Murderers
xiii.
You know what they say about lending money, it's a sure way to lose friends.
borrowing and lending;
friends.
LENGTH begets loathing
1742Don Quixote
II. ii. ix.
The rest I omit, because length begets loathing.
a
1895
My Confidences
(1896) 43
‘Length begets loathing.’ I well remember the sultry Sunday evenings when .. we simmered through Mr. Shepherd's long-winded pastorals.
brevity and long-windednesslength
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