“Those who fail to provide for themselves will eventually injure their friends and those who always provide for their friends will eventually injure themselves.”

As quoted in Lin Yutang's With Love and Irony (1945), 'In Defence of Gold Diggers', p. 221

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writer 1650–1707

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“Those who fail to provide for themselves will eventually injure their friends and those who always provide for their friends will eventually injure themselves.”

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