“I became angry that a newer guy to whom I had loaned a sum of money did not seem interested in paying me back. Incredulously, the borrower told me “We might have to do that loan thing again, as I’m kinda short this month.”
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend. For the type of alcoholic who is able
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
and willing to get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted. The men who cry for money and shelter before conquering alcohol, are on the wrong track. Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.
— Page 97 Alcoholics Anonymous
