Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East. Vol. 1, J. Newbery, 1762, p. 248.
Wants however often include abstract notions such as power.
Banks and other lending institutions don’t want to risk their loan money. So they prefer to lend money to those who do not need it rather than those who do.
Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).