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"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."
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"Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism."
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"Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets."
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"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."
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"Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal."
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"You can dress up greed, but you can't stop the stench."
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"Every greed is the root of un-gratefulness."
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"Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave."
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"An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed."
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"Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse."
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"You can be rich or deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it."
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"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
Strength
"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."
Religion
"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."
Man
"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."
Nothing
"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."
Success
"The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own."
Time
"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route."
Happiness
"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter."
People
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
Nothing
"Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."
Charity
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