"Cupidity sustains our egoism, this is noble." — Jeremy Limn

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• PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B.… — Ambrose Bierce
• The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and… — Grover Cleveland
• From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in… — Andrew Jackson
• War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to… — C. E. M. Joad
• England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity… — Stanley Baldwin
• No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found… — George Bernard Shaw
• True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the… — Arthur Frederick Saunders
• Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their… — Thomas Merton
• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would… — C.S. Lewis
• I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice… — Thomas Jefferson
• No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best… — Sándor Márai
• Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all… — Dante Alighieri

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