Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on -

What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that youve scowled upon. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury — to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind – Albert Einstein

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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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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. – Walter Lippmann

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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. Thats the nature of America, I think. – Jerry Garcia

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