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A money-lender. He serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the subjunctive; and ruins you in the future! - Joseph Addison Many have made witty invectives against usury. They say that it is a pity the devil should have God's part, which is the tithe; that the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. - Francis Bacon Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug. - Francis Bacon Usury is the land-shark and devil-fish of commerce. - James Lendall Basford Go not to a covetous old man with any request too soon in the morning, before he hath taken in that day's prey; for his covetousness is up before him, and he before thee, and he is in ill-humor; but stay till the afternoon, till he be satiated upon some borrower. - Thomas Fuller (1) The synonyme of usury is ruin. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") He was a man Versed in the world as pilot in his compass; The needle pointed ever to that interest Which was his loadstar; and he spread his sails With vantage to the gale of others' passions. - Ben Jonson Poor rogues, and usurers' men! bawds between gold and want! - William Shakespeare Extra interest signifies extra risk. - Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley
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