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Greed


 Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything

 Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

 The covetous man is ever in want.
  Horace

 The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
  Charles Kuralt

 The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
  Charles Kuralt

 The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
  Charles Kuralt

 The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
  David Hume

 The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
  Logan Pearsall Smith

 There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
  Oscar Wilde

 To greed, all nature is insufficient.
  Seneca

 We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

 We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

 With various people complaining about "price gouging”... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" — not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.


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