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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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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. – 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 is the vice of declining years. – George Bancroft

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

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