"Avarice is the vice of declining years."

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Source : George Bancroft (1845). “History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent, to the End of the Late War”, p.130

George Bancroft

#Years Quotes #Greed Quotes #Vices Quotes

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
“I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.”
“Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.”
“Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.”
“I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)”
“... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.”
“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.”
“All I can say is the most important part of being in a relationships that you love the person for who they are.”

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