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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. – Maria Edgeworth

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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. – Maria Edgeworth

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. – Charles Caleb Colton

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By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. – Henry David Thoreau

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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. – Joan Didion

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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. – Abraham Lincoln

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