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"Usury" Quotes from Famous Books

... always been a cog in the blind machinery of other people, exchanging so much toil for so much money. Now that he could see his little plantation grow and prosper beneath his hands, every hour repaid with nature's usury, he began to feel the elation that a man finds in independence. At first Fetuao had entered but half-heartedly into his plans; she would sit on a log and watch him with mirthful wonder as he swung his ax on the land Faalelei had given them; and ...

— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne

... his door, and the room is by the doorway where the sarrafs keep the accounts for the palaces your Highness builds. Also, abides near, the Greek, who toils upon the usury paid by ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... when there is neither mite nor cup to give, yet, if done in His name, it is entered in the "book of life" as a "loan to the Lord;" and in that day when "the books are opened," the loan will be paid back with usury. ...

— The Mind of Jesus • John R. Macduff

... being a barren product, it is contrary to nature to make it reproduce itself. Usury, therefore, is unnatural, ...

— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

... I am not a great writer, and do not understand usury and speculation," said D'Argens, quietly. "Besides, no courtesan made me her heir, and no mistress obtained ...

— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach

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