If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.

— Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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