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Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 511.
“Jesus, save me from the infatuation of avarice! I, too, will lay up a treasure, but Thou shalt have the keeping of it.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 21.
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