USURY
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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.—ADDISON
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Usury is the taking of any interest whatever upon an unproductive loan.—HILAIRE BELLOC, Economics for Helen
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Go not to a covetous old man, with any request, too soon in the morning, before he bath 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
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To borrow on usury brings sudden beggary.—Proverb
- To borrow on usance brings on a nuisance.—Proverb
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