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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

William Hazlitt, Edward George Earle Lytten Butwer-Lytton Lyton (1st baron), Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy”, p.293
Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.