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Completing a transaction with money borrowed at usury is a bad purchase.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about money, bad luck, bad

If you want to know the value of money, go and borrow some.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about value, money, contentment

If you want to know what a ducat is worth, try to borrow one.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

Don't borrow another's nose to breathe with.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Don't borrow someone else's nose to breathe with.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.

Proverbs and old sayings

Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.

Proverbs and old sayings

Have a horse of your own and then you may borrow another's.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about contentment

A borrowed fiddle does not finish a tune.

Proverbs and old sayings about end

We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, ancestors, earth, children

The world still he keeps at his staff's end that needs not to borrow and never will lend.

Proverbs and old sayings British about world, end

Without pressing too little or too hard, hold tight the reins for he's a fool who would not get value from a borrowed horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about value

We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about ancestors, children