"Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession."
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"The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession."
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"Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession."
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"As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs."
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"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty."
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"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves."
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"Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks."
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"Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are."
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"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
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"Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions."
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"Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck."
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"Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession."
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"What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy."
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"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
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"The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor."
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"Possessions are usually diminished by possession."
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"Music is everybody's possession."
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"Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law."
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"It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized."
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"By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many."
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