Saturday 22 October 1664 ... At noon comes my uncle Thomas and his daughter Mary about getting me to pay them the 30l. due now, but payable in law to her husband. I did give them the best answer I could, and so parted, they not desiring to stay to dinner... This reminds me of the importance of clarity with any form of financial transaction, business or private, especially the latter. I would say...
Neither a lender or a borrower be
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