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 | "Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the
first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to
ambition." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man
without sin." | |
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Gerard Didier Erasmus
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| "If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man
cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to
possess him." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother,
luxury." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things." | |
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Abraham Cowley
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| "Pride, envy, avarice ? these are the sparks have set on fire the
souls of man." | |
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Dante Alighieri
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| "The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert
which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no
fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others." | |
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Zeno
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