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Thus have I sorrowed,
Learning to my cost
That a book that's borrowed
Is a book that's lost!

— Arthur Guiterman Gaily the Troubadour (1936)

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Also in The New York Times (June 28, 1930) p. 14, col. 7 (with "Much" not "Thus")

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