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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. - M

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. – Michel de Montaigne

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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, the spur of industry. – David Hume

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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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Big mouthfuls often choke. – Italian Proverb

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