Avarice
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Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries
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
Avarice is always poor
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue
Frugality is one thing, avarice another
The avarice of mankind is insatiable
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things
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