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— Henri Rousseau"Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness."
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The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.
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