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  1. Michael Connelly _ Trunk Music

    The Strip was still lit by a million neon lights, though the crowds on the sidewalk had greatly decreased by this hour. Still, Bosch was awed by the spectacle of light. In every imaginable color and configuration, it was a megawatt funnel of enticement to greed that burned twenty-four hours a day. Bosch felt the same attraction that all the other grinders felt tug at them. Las Vegas was like one of the hookers on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Even happily married men at least glanced their way, if only for a second, just to get an idea what was out there, maybe give them something to think about. Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.
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  2. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
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  3. H. Rider Haggard _ She: A History of Adventure

    And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.
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  4. Anonymous _ Dives And Pauper

    Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin {= adultery; extramarital sex}, the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.
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  5. Voltaire _ Philosophical Dictionary

    The best is the enemy of good.
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  6. Voltaire _ Candide

    Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want."
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  7. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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  8. John le Carré _ Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact.""And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.
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  9. Edmund Spenser

    With golden giftes and many a guilefull wor
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  10. Leo Tolstoy _ How Much Land Does a Man Need?

    The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.
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  11. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    There are men who dig for gold; {Monseigneur Bienvenu} dug for compassion.
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  12. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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