| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 1517 |
| AUTHOR: | William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| QUOTATION: | Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. [text] |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | William Shakespeare Collection. |
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