...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...

Margaret Cavendish
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The greedy, avaricious and covetous must be kept in check, so that they do not go too far. It would be a terrible thing if one group of people should succeed in getting possession of such wealth and no others could share in it. Just think of the kind of joy and happiness such a group would feel at its own success, while there were others left out in the cold.

Source: The Blazing World And Other Writings

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