...buy, But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy ; For the apparel oft proclaims the man : Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both...of husbandry. This above all, — To thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." III....

...less than 10 percent? That purveyor of bad advice, Polonius, weighed in on the issue also: Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both...friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. HAMLET (1.3, 75-77) This advice would not only quash economic growth but would put business school...

...echoed his ethics of individualism in the words of the fussy Polonius, who advises his son, Neither a borrower, nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both...itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.36 For the agrarian reformer, the inevitable corollary of such arguments is a rejection of...

...- Use and Abuse', he quotes three lines from Shakespeare without naming the exact source: 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both...itself and friend, / And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.'3 It was on this didactic and utilitarian note that the play Hamlet made its unidentified...

...proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous cluei in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night...

...buy, But not express'd in fancy: rich, not gaudy: For the apparel off proclaims the man ... Neither a borrower, nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both...edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. William...

...modern America and Britain, however, may be the words of Polonius in act I, scene 3, of Hamlet: Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both...friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Nevertheless, even if banking is no longer stigmatized and is by now squarely part of the establishment...

...best rank and station Are most select and generous in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; 75 For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing...edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst nor then be false to any man. 80 Farewell;...

...end be, see Hampshire, "Sincerity," 236-244. 4. "This above all" follows immediately upon "Neither a borrower nor a lender be, / For loan oft loses both itself and friend, /And borrowing dulleth th'edge of husbandry." Can Polonius be talking merely of creditor-debtor relations? Gauge exactly...

...gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of all most select and generous chief in that. Neither a...man. Farewell — my blessing season this in thee. (1.3.58-81) This set of miscellaneous remarks looks jumbled together from different sections of the...