| all-consuming consumerism | | Date Created: Oct 06, 2004, 07:51 PM |
| Even the most avaricious of men not only do not own to being such, but sincerely believe that they are not; and that because avarice is as a strong fever which is all the less felt as it rages most fiercely. |
| Moses saw that sacred fire which burnt the bush without consuming it, but the profane fire of avarice acts precisely the other way -- it consumes the miser, but without burning, for, amid its most intense heat, he believes himself to be deliciously cool, and imagines his insatiable thirst to be merely natural and right. |
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