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Property and Possessions (Subscribe) Quotations, proverbs, and sayings about possessions and ownership of real and personal property.

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Property and Possessions - de Tocqueville, Alexis

"In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned." - from Democracy in America (1835 and 1840)
    - Alexis de Tocqueville (French political philosopher, writer, and historian; b. 1805 - d. 1859)

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Real Estate (Disposition, Legacy) - Hazlitt, William

"Good temper is an estate for life."
- William Hazlitt (English author, essayist, and critic; b. 1778 - d. 1830)

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