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avarice
«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.»
«Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person's avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again.»
Author: Russell Watson
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accumulated, ancient Romans, avarice, gorge, gorged, Romans, single-minded, vomited, vomiting, vomit up
«Avarice, the spur of industry»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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Greed
| Keywords:
avarice, spur
«For at least another hundred years we must pre?tend 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.»
«Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.»
