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I dont know ov enny thing more remorseless, on the face ov the earth, than 7 per cent interest.
[I don’t know of anything more remorseless on the face of the earth than 7 percent interest.]
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-03 (1871 ed.)
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Added on 12-Feb-26 | Last updated 12-Feb-26
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Topics: compounding, debt, interest, loan, remorselessness
More quotes by Billings, Josh The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher
On the Heavens [De Caelo, Περὶ οὐρανοῦ], Book 1, ch. 5 (1.5) / 271b.9-10 (350 BC) [tr. Stock (1922)]
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A small deviation from the truth at the beginning multiplies itself ten thousand-fold.
[tr. Hankinson (2004)]
Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 28-Jun-22
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Topics: complication, compounding, deviation, error, flaw, imprecision, truth
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