A Moneylender (n.) wants to sit by his stove while his hundred guilders gather wealth in the country, yet keep it in his pocket because it is only a loan — 'my dear friend, who would not like that?'
The Moneylender (n.) becomes, by Overstone's sleight of hand, the only capitalist, and his capital the only capital.
A Moneylender (n.) can swallow, as interest, everything above the producer's bare subsistence — what later splits into profit and ground-rent.
The Moneylender (n.) who replaces the patriarchal lord is a harder, money-grubbing upstart — yet the mode of production stays exactly as it was.
A Moneylender (n.) meets no barrier but the incapacity of the needy to pay or their capacity to resist.
A Moneylender (n.) who has a million gobbles up a great king — without danger to body or goods, without work, sitting by his stove baking apples.