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

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Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. – Matthew Green

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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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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. – Minna Antrim

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When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman. – Medgar Evers

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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. – Timothy Leary

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I love you more than my own skin. – Frida Kahlo

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