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We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.“Pride?” Catelyn snapped. His mocking ...

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The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Advers...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered som...

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You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...

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Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the loc...

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They listen to the music of idiots and amuse themselves with the sordid miseries of their businesses...

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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

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Michel FoucaultThe Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hou...

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They again kissed each other and fell asleep. The patch of light on the ceiling now seemed to be ass...

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Émile ZolaThe Fortune of the Rougons

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - ...

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