"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring."
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"Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself."
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"Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession."
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"How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain."
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"Understand that the only possession of any value is life."
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"Love and exclusive possession can never go together."
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"Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation."
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"Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul."
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"Nine-tenths of human law is about possession."
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"Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them."
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"You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession."
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"the possession of power brings on madness."
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"No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession."
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"Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest."
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"The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone."
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"Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth."
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"Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly."
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"When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own."
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"And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina - it was a joke, professor, it was a joke."
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"Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness."
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