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Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, opens wide her jaws for gold.

Ac primam scelerum matrem, quæ semper habendo
Plus sitiens patulis rimatur faucibus aurum,
Trudis Avaritiam.

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