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Updated: August 31, 2025
Also even equity between the borrower and the lender would work a hardness in the conditions of the poor man. Full protection requires a law of general application. Independence, self-reliance, self-support, was the condition aimed at and encouraged in the Hebrew state. Borrowing was only in time of sore need. The man who went a-borrowing was second only to the man who went a-begging.
And Mary had a horror of debt, that was part of her heritage from her grandfather Ware. It was his frequent remark that "who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing," and it lay heavy on the conscience of every descendant of his who stepped aside even for a moment from the path of his teachings.
I will repay it if I live, that is certain; but I have little hopes of obtaining it, and nothing but my affection for the old lady would induce me to risk the mortification of a refusal. It's true enough that `he who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing." "I fear it is; but I will so far assist you as to let you know what your only chance is.
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