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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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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. – George Bancroft

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Hair
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. – George Bancroft

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Beauty
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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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Presidents Day
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God forgives the sin of gluttony. – Proverb

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

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Greed

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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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. – Garrett Hardin

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You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. – Rudyard Kipling

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The first mistake in public business is the going into it. – Benjamin Franklin

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