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7 total sentences available.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Source: tatoeba (13528781)
A bargain is a social evil; one man's loss, tempting another man's cupidity.
Source: wiktionary
Now Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.
Source: wiktionary
His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrifice he had made, as they had before been to upbraid him for his cupidity.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include avarice, covetousness, acquisitiveness, appetite, avarice.
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