Covetousness

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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness
He is the least in want who is the least covetous
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor
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