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The MORE you get, the more you want

More succinctly stated in
MUCH would have more
. Cf. HORACE
Epistles
II
. ii. 147
quanto plura parasti
,
tanto plura cupis
, you want as much again as you have already got.

c
1340
Psalter
(1884) 97
The mare that a man has the brennandere [more ardently] he askis.
a
1450
Castle of Perseverance
l. 3268
in Macro Plays
(EETS)
The more he hadde, the more he cravyd, Whyl the lyf lefte hym with-Inne.
1578
First Fruits
32
The more a man hath, the more he desireth.
1798
Key of Liberty
(1922) 9
In short he is never easy, but the more he has the more he wants.
1940
Glass Triangle
x.
I was averaging eighty to a hundred [dollars] a week. Well, you know how it is. The more you get the more you want.