Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Where poverty ceases, avarice begins."
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Avarice
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David Hume
Philosopher, Historian
"Avarice, the spur of industry."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"The avarice of mankind is insatiable."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?"
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good."
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"When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice."
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"Avarice is always poor."
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"Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is."
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"Poverty needs much, avarice everything."
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