GIVE, BUT NEVER LEND
AT the risk of being called hardhearted, I am going to say a few things that need to be said, about the danger of lending money to friends. It would have saved me quite a bit of money and half a dozen friends, if some kind writer had told me these things thirty years ago. The fact is that as soon as you are known to have , you find yourself with a new set of difficulties. Then come the PARASITES.
An Encyclopedia could be written on these PARASITES. They are of all sorts and ranks. They range from the half-drunken whiner at the curb, to the Bishop in his gorgeous robes. They are relatives, friends and strangers. They are women as well as men. They are honest as well as dishonest. They are deserving as well as worthless. But they all want to take away your money make no mistake about that.
Parasites all! Beautiful women, with the faces of saints! Dignified gentlemen with the manners of courtiers! Nephews and nieces and uncles and aunts! All with their hands out and their eyes on your pockets! There is no known way of detecting a PARASITE, until the revealing moment comes, when he suggests that you should transfer some of your money from your pocket to his pocket. There is no known way of escaping either the respectable Beggars or the disreputable ones. Many a has had the shock of his life to find that his own SON has been bred with the instincts of a Beggar. But there is an eternal war on, between the BUILDERS and the BEGGARS, in this world. It is a fight to a finish. The BEGGARS overthrew the Roman Empire, and they have become so strong in the
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