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covetous Quotes

Three of the best book quotes about covetous
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“The housewives all admired [Emma] for her thriftiness, Charles’s patients for her courtesy, the poor for her generosity. Yet she was full of covetous desires, anger and hatred. The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment”
Gustave Flaubert
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Madame Bovary
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Emma Bovary
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“This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous.”
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“You and I have all we need in this world. Ah! how sinister and covetous you look already!”

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