Quote by Pearl Buck
Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster t

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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In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. – 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

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. – English Proverb

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

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