#avarice

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#escape #eye #few #penetrating #retreats

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ↗

— Petrarch

#anger #avarice #banished #enjoy #envy

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart. ↗

— Matthew Green

#heart

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#avarice #masked

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

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