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Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. - Matthew Green

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. – Matthew Green

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

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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. – Erich Fromm

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Greed

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. – Michel de Montaigne

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Greed

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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