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"An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed."
"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."
"Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
"Greed's worst point is its ingratitude."
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"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."
"In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs."
"It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times."
"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."
"Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? - why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections - an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places - which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place."
"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."
"You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old."
"God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent."
"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."
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