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		<title>Franklin, Benjamin -- Poor Richard (1740 ed.)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lend Money to an Enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a Friend and thou’lt lose him.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lend Money to an Enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a Friend and thou’lt lose him.</p>
<br><b>Benjamin Franklin</b> (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist<br><i>Poor Richard</i> (1740 ed.) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0053#:~:text=Lend%20Money%20to%20an%20Enemy%2C%20and%20thou%E2%80%99lt%20gain%20him%2C%20to%20a%20Friend%20and%20thou%E2%80%99lt%20lose%20him." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 1848 (1727)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If thou wouldest put a suspected Friend to the Test, offer to borrow Money of him.</p>
<br><b>Thomas Fuller</b> (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer<br><i>Introductio ad Prudentiam</i>, Vol. 2, # 1848 (1727) 
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		<title>Rogers, Will -- Column (1927-02-27), &#8220;Weekly Article: Big Bouts for Farm Relief&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trouble with the farmer up to now has been that every time somebody has thought of relief for him it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s the matter with him now. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The trouble with the farmer up to now has been that every time somebody has thought of relief for him it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s the matter with him now. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.</p>
<br><b>Will Rogers</b> (1879-1935) American humorist<br>Column (1927-02-27), &#8220;Weekly Article: Big Bouts for Farm Relief&#8221; 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/per_washington-post_1927-02-27_18518/page/n79/mode/2up?q=%22trouble+with+the+farmer%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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The <em>Washington Post</em> used "Big Bouts in Congress" as its headline.<br><br>

The above text is how it was worded both as published and as catalogued in <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Writings_of_Will_Rogers/vScb_ZidxWYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22The%20trouble%20with%20the%20farmer%22"><i>Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927</i></a>, No. 220 (1973).  When generally quoted, however, it is frequently in a more condensed form:<br><br>

<blockquote>Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.</blockquote>

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		<title>Franklin, Benjamin -- Poor Richard (1738 ed.)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.</p>
<br><b>Benjamin Franklin</b> (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist<br><i>Poor Richard</i> (1738 ed.) 
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		<title>Montesquieu -- Persian Letters [Lettres Persanes], Letter  66, Rica to *** (1721) [tr. Mauldon (2008)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all authors, I despise none more than the compilers, who go off in all directions looking for bits and pieces of other writers&#8217; works, which they then stick into their own, like pieces of turf into a lawn; they&#8217;re in no way superior to those printer&#8217;s typesetters, who arrange letters which, combined together, make [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of all authors, I despise none more than the compilers, who go off in all directions looking for bits and pieces of other writers&#8217; works, which they then stick into their own, like pieces of turf into a lawn; they&#8217;re in no way superior to those printer&#8217;s typesetters, who arrange letters which, combined together, make a book, to which they contributed only the manual labour. I would like the original texts to be respected; I feel it&#8217;s a kind of profanation, to extract the pieces which make them up from the sanctuary where they belong, and expose them to a contempt they do not deserve. When a man has nothing new to say, why does he not keep silent?<br />
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<em>[De tous les auteurs, il n’y en a point que je méprise plus que les compilateurs, qui vont, de tous côtés, chercher des lambeaux des ouvrages des autres, qu’ils plaquent dans les leurs, comme des pièces de gazon dans un parterre: ils ne sont point au-dessus de ces ouvriers d’imprimerie qui rangent des caractères, qui, combinés ensemble, font un livre où ils n’ont fourni que la main. Je voudrois qu’on respectât les livres originaux; et il me semble que c’est une espèce de profanation de tirer les pièces qui les composent du sanctuaire où elles sont, pour les exposer à un mépris qu’elles ne méritent point. Quand un homme n’a rien à dire de nouveau, que ne se tait-il?]</em></p>
<br><b>Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu</b> (1689-1755) French political philosopher<br><i>Persian Letters [Lettres Persanes]</i>, Letter  66, Rica to *** (1721) [tr. Mauldon (2008)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Persian_Letters/BT7dISXhzowC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22than%20the%20compilers%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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It is unclear what Montesquieu / his character would have thought of quotation collections.<br><br>

(<a href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Lettres_persanes/Lettre_66#:~:text=De%20tous%20les,se%20tait%2Dil%C2%A0%3F">Source (French)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Of all Authors, there is none I despise more than the Compilers, who forage far and wide for Scraps of other Men's Works, which they piece into their own, like so many Dabs of Green Turf in a Flower-garden: they are not a whit superior to those that work in a Printing-house, who distribute the Types, which being put together make a Book, towards which they furnish'd nothing but Manual Labour. I am for having Original Authors reverenc'd: and, in my Judgment, 'tis a sort of Prophanation to drag, as it were out of their Sanctuary, Pieces of their Works, and expose them to a Contempt which they deserve not. If a Man has nothing new to say, why don't he hold his Tongue?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Persian_Letters/jwE6AAAAcAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=compilers">Ozell</a> (1736  ed.), # 64] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Of all kind of authors, there are none I despise more than compilers, who search every where for shreds of other men's works, which they join to their own, like so many pieces of green turf in a garden: they are not at all superior to compositors in a printing house, who range the types, wh:ch, collected together, make a book, towards which they contribute nothing but the labours of the hand. I would have original writers respected, and it seems to me, a kind of profanation to take those pieces from the sanftuary in which they reside, and to expose them to a contempt they do not deserve. When a man hath nothing new to say, why does not he hold his tongue?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_persian-letters-by-m-_montesquieu-charles-de-_1762_1/page/188/mode/2up?q=compilers">Floyd</a> (1762)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Of all the authors, there are none whom I despise more than compilers. They crowd from all quarters to pick up the shreds of other men’s works; these they fit into their own, as one would patch the turf of a lawn: they are not one whit superior to the compositor, whose type-setting may be called book-making if manual labor is all. I would have original books respected; and it seems to me a species of profanation, to take from them the matter of which they are composed, as if from a sanctuary, and expose it to an undeserved contempt. When a man has nothing new to say, why can’t he be quiet?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Persian_Letters/Letter_66#:~:text=Of%20all%20the,he%20be%20quiet%3F">Davidson</a> (1891)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is no class of authors I despise more than I do compilers, who come from every side to search for the fragments of other men's works, which they wedge into their own, just as you would introduce patches of turf into the border of a flower-plot. They are not superior to printers who arrange characters in such a way as to produce a book, but whose manual labor has been all that has entered into its composition. I would have original books respected. It is a kind of profanation to tear from them the parts of which they are composed, as if from a sanctuary, and thereby expose them to a contempt they do not deserve.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/persianletters00degoog/page/n162/mode/2up?q=%22no+class+of+authors%22">Betts</a> (1897)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Of all authors, I most despise the compilers, who search everywhere in the works of others for fragments which they then fit into their own, much as you would piece turf into a lawn. They are no better authors than the printers who select and combine letters and thus, contributing only their manual labor, make a book. I would have original books respected, and it seems to me that there is something profane in tearing constituent pieces from their sanctuary and exposing them to a scorn they do not deserve. When a man has nothing to say, why is he not silent? <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/montesquieu-persian-letters-healy/page/110/mode/2up?q=%22despise+the+compilers%22">Healy</a> (1964)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Of all these authors, the ones I despise the most are the compilers, the ones who rummage through the works of others and tear off strips to patch into their own books, like bits of turf in a lawn. They are no better than the compositors who work for the printers, putting letters together so as to form a book; they have contributed nothing but the use of their hands. I think original books ought to be more respected, for I think it is a kind of profanation to take fragments out of their sanctuary and expose them to a contempt that they do not merit. When a man has nothing new to say, why does he not keep quiet?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Persian_Letters/UK5aBAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22of%20all%20these%20authors%22">MacKenzie</a> (2014)]</blockquote><br>
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		<title>Ford, Henry -- My Life and Work, ch. 11 &#8220;Money and Goods&#8221; (1922) [with Samuel Crowther]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,000 if the trouble is inside your business. More lathes will not cure it; neither will more money. Only heavier doses of brains and thought and wise courage can cure. A business [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,000 if the trouble is inside your business. More lathes will not cure it; neither will more money. Only heavier doses of brains and thought and wise courage can cure. A business that misuses what it has will continue to misuse what it can get.</p>
<br><b>Henry Ford</b> (1863-1947) American industrialist<br><i>My Life and Work</i>, ch. 11 &#8220;Money and Goods&#8221; (1922) [with Samuel Crowther] 
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		<title>Rothfuss, Patrick -- The Name of the Wind, ch. 49 &#8220;The Nature of Wild Things&#8221; (2007)</title>
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<br><b>Patrick Rothfuss</b> (b. 1973) American author<br><i>The Name of the Wind</i>, ch. 49 &#8220;The Nature of Wild Things&#8221; (2007) 
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		<description><![CDATA[Books are one of the few things men cherish deeply. And the better the man, the more easily will he part with his most cherished possessions. A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum &#8212; of both books [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Books are one of the few things men cherish deeply. And the better the man, the more easily will he part with his most cherished possessions. A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum &#8212; of both books and money. But especially books, for books represent infinitely more than money.</p>
<br><b>Henry Miller</b> (1891-1980) American novelist<br><i>The Books in My Life</i>, ch. 1 (1952) 
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		<title>Franklin, Benjamin -- Poor Richard (1747 ed.)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why then should I give my Readers bad Lines of my own, when good Ones of other People&#8217;s are so plenty? &#8216;Tis methinks a poor Excuse for the bad Entertainment of Guests, that the Food we set before them, tho&#8217; coarse and ordinary, is of one&#8217;s own Raising, off one&#8217;s own Plantation, &#038;c. when there [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why then should I give my Readers <em>bad Lines</em> of my own, when <em>good Ones</em> of other People&#8217;s are so plenty? &#8216;Tis methinks a poor Excuse for the bad Entertainment of Guests, that the Food we set before them, tho&#8217; coarse and ordinary, is <em>of one&#8217;s own Raising, off one&#8217;s own Plantation</em>, &#038;c. when there is Plenty of what is ten times better, to be had in the Market. &#8212; On the contrary, I assure ye, my Friends, that I have procur&#8217;d the best I could for ye, and <em>much Good may&#8217;t do ye.</em></p>
<br><b>Benjamin Franklin</b> (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist<br><i>Poor Richard</i> (1747 ed.) 
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On his (uncredited) borrowing of poetry and aphorisms from others for his almanac.						</span>
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		<title>Steele, Richard -- Essay (1709-06-28), The Tatler, No.  35</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But however low and poor the taking of Snuff argues a Man to be in his own Stock of Thought, or Means to employ his Brains and his Fingers, yet there is a poorer Creature in the World than He, and this is a Borrower of Snuff; a Fellow that keeps no Box of his [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But however low and poor the taking of Snuff argues a Man to be in his own Stock of Thought, or Means to employ his Brains and his Fingers, yet there is a poorer Creature in the World than He, and this is a Borrower of Snuff; a Fellow that keeps no Box of his own, but is always asking others for a Pinch.</p>
<br><b>Richard Steele</b> (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician<br>Essay (1709-06-28), <i>The Tatler</i>, No.  35 
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		<title>Bierce, Ambrose -- &#8220;Acquaintance,&#8221; The Cynic&#8217;s Word Book (1906)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and &#8220;intimate&#8221; when he is rich or famous. Included in The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary (1911).]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ACQUAINTANCE, <em>n.</em> A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and &#8220;intimate&#8221; when he is rich or famous. </p>
<br><b>Ambrose Bierce</b> (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist<br>&#8220;Acquaintance,&#8221; <i>The Cynic&#8217;s Word Book</i> (1906) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43951/43951-h/43951-h.htm#:~:text=ACQUAINTANCE%2C%20n.%20A%20person%20whom%20we%20know%20well%20enough%20to%20borrow%20from%2C%20but%20not%20well%20enough%20to%20lend%20to.%20A%20degree%20of%20friendship%20called%20slight%20when%20its%20object%20is%20poor%20or%20obscure%2C%20and%20%22intimate%22%20when%20he%20is%20rich%20or%20famous" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Dictionary/A#:~:text=ACQUAINTANCE%2C%20n.%20A%20person%20whom%20we%20know%20well%20enough%20to%20borrow%20from%2C%20but%20not%20well%20enough%20to%20lend%20to.%20A%20degree%20of%20friendship%20called%20slight%20when%20its%20object%20is%20poor%20or%20obscure%2C%20and%20intimate%20when%20he%20is%20rich%20or%20famous.">Included</a> in <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i> (1911).
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		<title>Twain, Mark -- The Tragedy of Pudd&#8217;nhead Wilson, ch. 8, epigraph (1894)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.</p>
<br><b>Mark Twain</b> (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]<br><i>The Tragedy of Pudd&#8217;nhead Wilson</i>, ch. 8, epigraph (1894) 
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