“As my father used to say: “There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.””

— Patrick Rothfuss, book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 49, “The Nature of Wild Things” (p. 354)

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