avarice, n.Definitions

Avarice is the spur of industry.

Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault.

Avarice is especially a disease of the imagination.

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Avarice is only prudence and economy pushed to excess.

Avarice is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.