No amount of wealth can satisfy a covetous man. All the treasure in the world won't make him happy.
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Covetous
/ˈkʌvətəs/
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A covetous man is good to none and worst to himself.
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The couaitous deſyre of riche men is euer vnſaciable. It always raueneth and neuer is ſatisfied.
Source: wiktionary
Intimate as she was with Lady Anne, she would not but see how little the Misses Granard had of the ordinary pleasures of their age—but it never entered into her head to add to them—had one of their sweet faces been seen in her box at the opera, it might have attracted that attention she was feverishly covetous of engrossing.
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