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Quote by William Penn
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. - Will

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

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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. – William Penn

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

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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. – Thomas Fuller

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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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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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