FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Borrower, lender
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Giver, receiver
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Lender, borrower
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Receiver, Giver
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Detailed explanation-1: -Neither a borrower, nor a lender be. For loan oft loses both itself and friend. And borrower dulls the edge of husbandry.” This portion from William Shakespeare’s ‘Polonius advises Laertes’ is relevant even today.
Detailed explanation-2: -This quote means that one should neither borrow money from friends, risk being in debt to them and not being able to pay them back, and that they should not lend money out either. Then one might be at the risk of never retrieving one’s funds and losing friends.
Detailed explanation-3: -And then, one of the most famous pearls of wisdom among a veritable necklace of the stuff: ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’. Don’t borrow money from someone, but don’t lend money to someone else, either.
Detailed explanation-4: -Proverb. It is not good to borrow money from anybody, lest you will lose their trust and friendship.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Answer: That saying was taken from a soliloquy by Polonius in Act I, Scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet . Polonius is giving advice to his son Laertes before Laertes heads back to school.