"You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and……" — Scott Lynch
"You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains."
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53 Quotes by Scott Lynch
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A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the…
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Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.
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Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
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I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that…
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I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A…
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Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned…
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I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning
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There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've…
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... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows…
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Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of…
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My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.
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I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.
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More Avarice Quotes
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
— Dante Alighieri
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people?…
— Tecumseh
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
— George Washington
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of…
— Karl Marx
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your…
— Thomas Merton
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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