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"So use your own property as not to injure that of another."
"Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution."
"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."
"I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked."
"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."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
"CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts."
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."
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