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Treasure Quotes - Page 20

Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

Jeremy Taylor (1850). “Holy Living and Dying: Together with Prayers : Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian, and the Parts of Devotion Fitted to All Occasions and Furnished for All Necessities”, p.231

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.128, Wordsworth Editions

They hold a grudge like it was their family treasure.

Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.90, Penguin