182 Quotes About Property




  • Author Samuel Butler
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    For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our thieving, as we have found it necessary to organise our lust and revenge. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.

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  • Author Catherine Aird
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    What condition?’‘He's got a bad heart as well as the leg injuries he got in the war which put him in his wheelchair.’‘Ah.’ If there was one thing which every policeman knew it was that families were bad for every medical condition, but especially for heart ones. Legs were less important.

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