“If you want to turn a friend unfriendly, lend him a fanam.”
Lending money to a friend, however small the sum, is one of the surest ways to damage the friendship (a fanam was an old, low-value Ceylonese coin).
— Traditional Sri Lanka Wisdom, Sri Lanka
Source: Traditional Sri Lankan proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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