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to borrow when anyone seems likely
to ask for a loan, to ask for a loan from one who wants his money back, and
asking for repayment from one who wants to borrow; to praise in order to seem to
be asking for a loan, and when you have failed to obtain it to keep on asking;
for all these are signs of stinginess.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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