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

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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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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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