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Though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
Though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
Approximate author period: c. 1773 AD · early modern
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- Thomas Paine
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- Approximate author period: c. 1773 AD · early modern
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
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