“Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.”
Thomas Tusser (1524–1580) English poet
"June's Abstract".
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)
“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
— Cormac McCarthy, book The Road
Source: The Road
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