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I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

— Edward Moore The Gamester (1753)

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Compare: "The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice", Samuel Johnson, in Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. Chap. ii

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But from the hoop’s bewitching round,
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