“Creditors have better memories than debtors. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.”
The Provoked Wife (1698)
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1860s, Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)
“We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech to the National Press Club http://books.google.com/books?id=8gLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 (20 March 1914)<!--PWW 29:364--> <br class="br">1910s <br class="br">Variant: I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow <br class="br">Context: I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first.