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"Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals —"
GreedIt is impossible to conceive any contrast more entire and absolute tha — Greed
"It is impossible to conceive any contrast more entire and absolute than that which exists between a heart glowing with love to God, and a heart in which the love of money has cashiered all sense of God — His love, His presence, His glory; and which is no sooner relieved from the mockery of a tedious round of religious formalism, than it reverts to the sanctuaries where its wealth is invested, with an intenseness of homage surpassing that of the most devout Israelite who ever, from a foreign land, turned his longing eyes toward Jerusalem."
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Greed is an insatiable desire for material gain or social value, such as status or power sometimes at the expense of others in the community.
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"There grows, In my most ill-composd affection such A stanchless avarice, that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands."
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"Ac primam scelerum matrem, quæ semper habendo Plus sitiens patulis rimatur faucibus aurum, Trudis Avaritiam."
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"This avarice Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root."
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"So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice."
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"Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit."
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