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“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is…”

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“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.”

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

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