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“Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.”
John Randolph
“A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“No man can lose what he never had”
Izaak Walton
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins”
William Pitt the younger
“Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise”
Christopher Columbus
“I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.”
Colin Powell
“Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?”
Frank Herbert
“A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
Alexander Smith
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.”
Albert Einstein
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