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"The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society."
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"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."
"I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation."
"I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone."
"Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property."
"Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
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