Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. (Samuel Johnson)

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

Samuel Johnson

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