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• The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion to the amount of food you consume from it.
  If you run out of food, the pack weight goes on increasing anyway. -- Milt Barbe...
• Ambition is in fact the avarice of power.
• Gaming is the son of avarice, but the father of despair.
• Avarice is always poor. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• Avarice is the vice of declining years. -- George Bancrof
• Gluttony is not one of the troll's vices. Avarice, however, is.
• Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Juvenal
• As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
• Complexity increases the possibility of failure.