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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

America is not in decline.

There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.