If you would know the value of a Ducat, try to borrow one.
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Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1754) : If you'd know the Value of Money, go and borrow some.Thomas Fuller (writer)
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Your second ducat, like your second million, is never quite as sweet.
William Poundstone
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection; and trust more to your imagination than to your memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
May I borrow your wheelbarrow?
— I didn't lay down my life in World War II
so that you could borrow my wheelbarrowAdrian Mitchell
We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from the Gulf states to defend the Gulf states. We borrow from Japan to defend Japan. Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world so we can defend the world?
Pat Buchanan
Truth does not need to borrow garments from error. (Also translated as: Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.)
Jose Rizal
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