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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Pliny the Elder
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
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Andreas Capellanus
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
Thomas Clarkson
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
73% of people like this quote
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Pliny the Elder
58% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
Thomas Clarkson
53% of people like this quote
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
51% of people like this quote
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