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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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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