Avarice iz like a grave yard, it takes all that it kan git, and givs nothing back.

[Avarice is like a graveyard; it takes all that it can get, and gives nothing back.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]

Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 150 “Affurisms: Parboils” (1874)
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