David Hume's Quote - Avarice, the spur of industry. – David Hume

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Avarice, the spur of industry. - David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry. – David Hume

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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. – David Hume

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – David Hume

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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. – David Hume

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Avarice is the vice of declining years. – George Bancroft

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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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You show me a capitalist, and Ill show you a bloodsucker. – Malcolm X

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

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