"Borrowed garments never fit well." — Proverb

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• A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
• I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how… — Bryan Adams
• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin
• People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing… — Warren G. Bennis
• You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. — William J. H. Boetcker
• The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole… — Dale Carnegie
• I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then -… — Agatha Christie
• Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our… — William J. Clinton
• It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the… — George Steiner
• Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed… — Theodore Beale
• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation… — Abraham Flexner
• To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana

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