Borrowed

Famous quotes containing the word borrowed:

“I borrowed today out of the Advocate’s Library, David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, but found it so abstruse, so contrary to sound sense and reason, and so drearying its effects on the mind, if it had any, that I resolved to return it without reading it.
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—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Thought can but share
Belief—and the tormented soul,
Changing confession to despair,
Must wear a borrowed robe.”
—Austin Clarke (1896–1974)