2. "We don't begin to covet with imagined things. Coveting is a very literal sin–we begin to covet with tangibles, we begin with what we see every day."
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Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
3. "The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less."
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Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals
4. "If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive."
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Ken Follett, Fall of Giants
5. "It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."
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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
6. "But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive."
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William Shakespeare, Henry V
7. "If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul."
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Quote by William Shakespeare
8. "It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a man exempt from fears and desires should take the trouble to reason."
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
9. "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down"
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Julia Quinn, When He Was Wicked
10. "Compliment but do not covet."
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Quote by Christopher Moore