Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. The history of the city (№ 164625)

Reasonable creditor helps the debtor to get out of straitened circumstances and in reward for their intelligence gets their duty. Unreasonable creditor puts the debtor in jail or continuously flogs him and in reward gets nothing. Reasoning thus, foolovites waited, did not all lenders are reasonable? And waiting until this day.