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— Horace"He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue."
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Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
— Edmund Pendleton
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Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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