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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
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