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“Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 002d00844bfc7371ca28e0b35b000e80efc0b20024a470e9f39563a98d7354cc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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