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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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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. – William Penn

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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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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. – Charles Caleb Colton

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God forgives the sin of gluttony. – Proverb

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