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

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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