John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester Quote

It is a good world to live in,
To lend, or to spend, or to give in;
But to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own,
It is the very worst world that ever was known.


Epigram, sometimes attributed to John Bromfield


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