"The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit."

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John Buchanan Robinson

#Credit Quotes #Lending Quotes

“Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.”
“I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.”
“Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Apr 11, 2011
“Only think of my being alive with a reputation!”

Source : Winslow Homer, Robert W. Schlageter, Cummer Gallery of Art (1977). “Winslow Homer's Florida, 1886-1909: exhibition April 22 to May 29, 1977, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville”
“Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.”
“Frustration and I have become good friends. And like any friend who's a bad influence, frustration sometimes makes me do things that are, in retrospect, stupid. - Sirensong”
“I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.”

Source : "Sophie Hannah: 'It's surprising how many poems turn out to be about sex'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.
“I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.”

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