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We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.826
We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.