• Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. possessions
2. compromise
3. character
4. dividends
5. seems
6. steal

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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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