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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves an

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

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

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