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Old 03-28-2013, 05:11 AM   #166
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Very good. Of course, I never have to worry since I neither share nor lend.

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
Take all the gifts that you can get.
Steal what isn't free."
Or, to put it another way:

A Yorkshireman's advice to his son
Eat all, drink all, pay nowt
See all, hear all, say nowt
And if ever tha does owt for nowt, allus do it for thisen

My dad, a proud Yorkshireman, gave a mug to my uncle, an equally proud Devonian, with that poem on it. My uncle used it until the day he died.
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