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When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

Jonathan Swift
Running, Greed, Mind
Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.893, Delphi Classics

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Jonathan Swift
Greed, Vices, Extremes
"The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe".

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