"'Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own; 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known."
— World

January 1, 1970

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J. Bromfield. As given in The Mirror, under The Gatherer (Sept. 12, 1840). Quoted by Washington Irving in Tales of a Traveller. Prefixed to Part II. Another similar version attributed to Earl of Rochester; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.