Greed

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The love of money is the root of all evil.

1st Timothy 6:10

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Timothy 6:10).

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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1734.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1734." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 1, London: Saunders and Otley, 1835, ch. 3.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 1, ch. 3.

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Hume, David. "Of Liberty and Despotism." Essays, Moral and Political. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1741, no. 15.

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Hume, David. "Of Civil Liberty." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 1, no. 12.

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Voltaire [published anonymously]. "Luxe [Luxury]." Dictionnaire Philosophique Portatif. Geneva: Gabriel Grasset, 1764.

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Voltaire. "Luxury." Philosophical Dictionary, translated by Theodore Besterman. Penguin Classics, 1984.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man Has." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Osler, William. Science and Immortality. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904, ch. 2.

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 3.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 3.

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Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma, Universal Pictures, 1983.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 5:10).

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Pope, Alexander. Letter to the Bishop of Rochester. 23 Sept. 1720.

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Pope, Alexander. "To Atterbury, Sept. 23, 1720." Alexander Pope: Selected Letters, edited by Howard Erksine-Hill. Oxford University Press, 2000, no. 61.

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Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? 1864-1865. Serial.

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Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? Penguin Classics, 1975.

Greed is all right... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Ivan F. Boesky

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Boesky, Ivan. Commencement speech. 18 May 1986, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

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Buffett, Warren. "Buy American. I Am." The New York Times, Oct 16, 2008.