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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants

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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. – Anatole France

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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best. – Anatole France

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

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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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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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