If you would abolish ...

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
Philosophy is the true mother of science.
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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
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