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• To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

  Charles Lamb

  Hypocrisy, Being Thankful, Add

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.390

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• What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!

  James Otis

  Wealth

  "The Class Book of American Literature". Book by John Frost, Lesson XLIX: Specimen of the Eloquence of James Otis i extracted from "The Rebels.", 1826.

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• It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Chiefs, Policy

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].”, p.333

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• Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

  William Shenstone

  Character, Giving, Almighty

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.152

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• Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

  William Shenstone

  Children, Men, Fists

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.155

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• The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
  [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

  Juvenal

  Amor, Increase, Quantum

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• Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pride, Intellectual, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

  Malcolm X

  Hope, Greed, Political

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• Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Lust, Fortune

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.153

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• There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Eye, Retreat

  Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.96, Broadview Press

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• You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hate, Men, Despise

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• Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

  Cyril Connolly

  Passion, Ignorance, Darkness

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• In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Avarice Greed, Want, Abundance

  "The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne".

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• Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

  Publilius Syrus

  Greed, Want, Poverty

  "Maxims". 441,

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• The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

  Pliny the Elder

  Lust, Avarice Greed, Wealth

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• Avarice, the spur of industry.

  David Hume

  Spurs, Industry

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'Of Civil Liberty'

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• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Fickle, Disease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.115, Library of America

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• Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

  John A. Logan

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, People

  "Memorial Day Order" by John A. Logan, www.cem.va.gov. May 5, 1868.

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• Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

  Stendhal

  Avarice Greed, Morality, Kind

  Stendhal (1950*). “Stendhal on Love”

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• Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Luxury, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

  William Penn

  Wall, Avarice Greed, Hazards

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.832

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• The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

  Aristotle

  Mankind, Insatiable

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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• It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

  Samuel Richardson

  Taste, Bribe

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.138

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• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

  John Adams

  Religious, Revenge, Passion

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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