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All social rules and all relatio…

5 Jan , 2014  

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. Marx, Karl

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Avarice is generally the last pa…

5 Jan , 2014  

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. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. Johnson, Samuel

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Avarice, the spur of industry, i…

5 Jan , 2014  

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small that it scarcely admits of calculation. Hume, David

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Avarice, sphincter of the heart….

5 Jan , 2014  

Avarice, sphincter of the heart. Greene, Michael

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Avarice is more directly opposed…

5 Jan , 2014  

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is. La Rochefoucauld, François

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By avarice and selfishness, and …

5 Jan , 2014  

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. Thoreau, Henry David

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Enriched beyond the dreams of an…

27 Apr , 2013  

Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person’s avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again. Watson, Russell

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History seems to us an arena of …

11 Jan , 2012  

History seems to us an arena of instincts and fashions, of appetite, avarice, and craving for power, of blood lust, violence, destruction, and wars, of ambitious ministers, venal generals, bombarded cities, and we too easily forget that this is only one of its many aspects. Hesse, Hermann

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Instead of this we have luxury a…

4 Mar , 2011  

Instead of this we have luxury and avarice; public indigence side by side with private opulence; we glorify wealth and pursue idleness; between the worthy and the unworthy we make no distinction; all the prizes of virtue are awarded to ambition. Crispus, Gaius Sallustius

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It is the child of avarice, the …

3 Mar , 2011  

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. Washington, George

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My regimen is lust and avarice f…

19 May , 2010  

My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation. Cooley, Mason

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Poverty wants some, luxury many,…

11 Jan , 2010  

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. Cowley, Abraham

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