Quote by Pearl Buck
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him. – Pearl Buck

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up. – Pearl Buck

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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. – Thomas Carlyle

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a mans substance with invisible teeth. – Henry Ward Beecher

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. – Josh Billings

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