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Robert South on Jealousy

1634–1716 England

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The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)

Of covetousness, we may truly say that it makes' both the Alpha and Omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies.

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