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• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
  Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net....
• Avarice: generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• Extreme avarice is always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, a grave to rest in, and a fading name.
  -- William Winte...
• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
  -- Herbert N. Casso...
• Gaming is the son of avarice, but the father of despair.
• Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold. -- Juvenal
• Avarice is always poor. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• Avarice is the vice of declining years. -- George Bancrof