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Greed facts for kids

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Greed is a desire to have more goods, or more wealth than is needed. Christianity says that greed is one of the Seven deadly sins. There it is listed as avarice, or in Latin avaritia.

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  • Gillray Shakespeare Sacrificed 20 June 1789

    Shakespeare Sacrificed: Or the Offering to Avarice by James Gillray

  • The Father and Mother

    The Father and Mother by Boardman Robinson depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride

  • Jacques Callot, Greed, probably after 1621, NGA 5366

    Jacques Callot, Greed, probably after 1621

  • Faustus-tragedy

    Frontispiece to a 1620 printing of Doctor Faustus showing Faustus conjuring Mephistophilis.

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