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those who hoarded or over spent their riches reside between the gluttons and the wrathful and sullen : dante, via longfellow, describes them as '... people, more than elsewhere, many. On one side and the other, with great howls, Rolling weights forward by main force of chest. They clashed together, and then at that point Each one turned backward, rolling retrograde, Crying, "Why keepest?" and, "Why sqaunderest thou?" Thus they returned along the lurid circle On either hand unto the opposite point, shouting their shameful metre evermore.' :

 

 

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