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Letter "L" » lending
«Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!»
Author: W.J. Reichmann
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Keywords:
categories,
classification,
classifications,
classified,
exceptions,
labelled,
lending,
neatly,
outrageous,
pretensions,
propensity,
remarkable
«Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing»
«If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library»
«Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.»
«People cannot live by lending money to one another.»
«Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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About:
Time
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Keywords:
arrears,
Banks,
bank note,
charging,
groats,
in arrears,
lending,
old time
«No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality»