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A corrupt and improvident loan, like everything else corrupt or prodigal, cannot be too much condemned; but there is a short-sighted parsimony still more fatal than an unforeseeing expense.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke warns against both corrupt loans and the dangers of excessive frugality in financial matters.
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