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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 385
AUTHOR: Jesse Holman Jones (1874–1956)
QUOTATION: One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.
ATTRIBUTION: JESSE H. JONES, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and later secretary of commerce.—The New York Times Magazine, July 2, 1939, p. 4.
SUBJECTS: Debt