A Quote by Sophia Lee

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

Sophia Lee

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Avarice Rarely Vice Youth

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Sophia Lee
English - Novelist
1750 - March 13, 1824

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

Lord Chesterfield

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

George Bancroft

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Jonathan Swift

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

Thomas Browne

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

Lord Byron

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

Philip Neri

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

David Hume

My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.

Meredith Brooks

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

Lucian

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

J. A. Spender

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

Samuel Johnson

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

Henry Fielding

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Honore de Balzac

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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