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Charles Symmons Quote

Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll
To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

Charles Symmons

Book III, lines 74–75 - The Æneis (1817)

Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!

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Charles Symmons

Charles Symmons

Born: 1749

Died: April 27, 1826 (aged 77)

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