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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away. - Anaxagoras So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. - Sir William Blackstone Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. - Maria Edgeworth Mine is better than ours. - Benjamin Franklin The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle. - Abraham Lincoln As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. - James Madison Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. - Karl Marx Who owns this landscape? The millionaire who bought it or the poacher staggering downhill in the morning with a deer on his back? - Norman McCaig, A Man in Assynt To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it. - Lord Charles Neaves In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell. - Will Rogers From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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