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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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. – David Hume

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. – David Hume

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Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. – David Hume

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

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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