When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

The vicar of Wakefield: a tale. Supposed to be written by himself. The advertisement signed: Oliver Goldsmith (ed. 1780)