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Avarice is the vice of declining years. - George Bancroft

Avarice is the vice of declining years. – George Bancroft

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. – George Bancroft

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Intelligence
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. – George Bancroft

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God
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Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity. – George Bancroft

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I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. Its time for change in America. – William Jefferson Clinton

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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 avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. – Horace

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Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. – Ivan F. Boesky

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My son, we ought to lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth, or else we shall reach the end of our journey with an empty heart, for we lose a great many on our way. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

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If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom. – Kofi Annan

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If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong. – African Proverb

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