[A]s for covetousness, we may truly say of it, that it make… - Robert Southey

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[A]s for covetousness, we may truly say of it, that it makes both the alpha and omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies.

Robert Southey

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Robert Southey (August 12 1774 – March 21 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate.

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From its fountains
In the mountains,
Its rills and its gills;
Through moss and through brake,
It runs and it creeps
For a while, till it sleeps
In its own little lake.

Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!

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