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The Miser's plot, involving a rich money-lender called Harpagon, whose feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching household and marry their respective lovers, is a comedy of manners to which the 17th-century French upper classes presumably objected.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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A pauper himself, a slave to the money-lender, he knew himself the superior of those he met at the Morses '; and, when his one decent suit of clothes was out of pawn, he moved among them a lord of life, quivering with a sense of outrage akin to what a prince would suffer if condemned to live with goat-herds.
Chapter 29 2010
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Originally published in monthly installments in a Russian magazine in 1866, Crime and Punishment is a suspenseful literary masterpiece that examines the thoughts and justifications of a school dropout who plots to murder a money-lender for her money.
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And the gentile might be mistaken for a Jew if he becomes a money-lender.
Polygamy Meets Economy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Given the treatment he gets just for being a Jew, the extra stigma he endures for being a Jewish money-lender is probably minimal.
Polygamy Meets Economy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A dramatic courtroom trial determines if the money-lender Shylock can take a pound of flesh from the borrower Antonio, who defaulted on a loan.
Law Professor Turns to Shakespeare for Insights into Justice 2011
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So I got a shrewd, close-mouthed, tight-fisted money-lender to get the mortgage transferred to him.
MOON-FACE 2010
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Even a money-lender is not above taking a slightly lower rate of interest and saying nothing about it.
THE SCAB 2010
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The Miser's plot, involving a rich money-lender called Harpagon, whose feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching household and marry their respective lovers, is a comedy of manners to which the 17th-century French upper classes presumably objected.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Thus, if people are anti-Semites and hate money-lenders, a Jew might as well be a money-lender.
Polygamy Meets Economy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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