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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. - Charles Caleb C

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. – Matthew Green

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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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