One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.
Jesse Holman Jones (1874–1956) American politician, entrepreneur
The New York Times Magazine (2 Jul 1939)
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.
Jesse Holman Jones (1874–1956) American politician, entrepreneur
The New York Times Magazine (2 Jul 1939)
Amen to this! And Oh how appropriate to our times! We are in the disaster that we are in precisely because we have a government that pampers its citizens and has forgotten that suffering the consequences of one’s own foolish decisions is a foundation-block to a free society.
As the comment note above says, I’d rather not make this a forum for discussing “thoughts about the quotation itself.”