The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them but to have them.
— Tillotson
The covetous man hoards riches not to use them but merely to possess them.
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THE COVETOUS person, particularly the one who’s become a materialist, will soon discover that money can give you a bed, …
— Tony Evans
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind.…
— Samuel Johnson
The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as wealth to possess him.
— Dr. Bacon
MANY of us were like the dog in the fable carrying a juicy steak across a bridge. As he walked and crossed the bridge, h…
— Tony Evans
The definition of “ enough ” Most persons find a problem tough; Perhaps the best one given yet, Is “ something more than…
— Unknown
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
— Juvenal
