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Avarice, the spur of industry. - David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry. – David Hume

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. – David Hume

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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. – David Hume

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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. – David Hume

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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. – Thomas Fuller

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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. – Minna Antrim

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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

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