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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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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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Big mouthfuls often choke. – Italian Proverb

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God forgives the sin of gluttony. – Proverb

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