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Avarice, the spur of industry. - David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry. – David Hume

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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. – David Hume

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David Hume
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. – David Hume

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

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

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God forgives the sin of gluttony. – Proverb

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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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Why live on the edge when you can jump off it? – Sign at Macau Tower Bungy Jump

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To a man with an empty stomach food is God. – Gandhi

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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

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When Im filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and youve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but Im not like that when Im back home. – Bear Grylls

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