The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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- Nationality: roman
- Died: August 27, 1979
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When, over the following months, Minta Randall found that Eustace apparently reciprocated her profoundest and most secret feelings, she thought she had never lived before, or knew what life could hold, or what absolute power one heart could exert upon another. She perceived no trace, fossil, or echo of this wild sensation anywhere around her, and concluded that she and Eustace had invented it together, which would be, she thought, just like them.
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