"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
— Mark Twain

January 1, 1970

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According to R. Ken Rasmussen in The Quotable Mark Twain (1998), this is most probably not Twain's.