Continuing the Vein of Venal Optimism

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We're now up to 78p. Ha!

And having OED-ed* the spelling of avaricious, the quote for the day just has to be:

"Queen Elizabeth was avaricious with pomp; James I. lavish with meanness."

Horace Walpole

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* OED (oh-ee-dee) vb. to obsessively check the spelling and meaning of words in the largest available dictionary; to overdose on definitions. From OED, the abbreviation for one such large dictionary, paralleling OD as an abbreviation for overdose.