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— John Adams"I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame"
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Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.
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