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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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness
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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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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. – William Penn

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

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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. – Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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

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Id go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light Id take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. Thats how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. – Herb Ritts

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