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 This is the truth as I see it, my dear,
 Out in the wind and the rain:
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 This is the truth as I see it, my dear,
 Out in the wind and the rain:
  They who have nothing have little to fear,
   Nothing to lose or to gain. 
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn
 The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows 
[elsewhere] the sun never sets.
 [Lat., Altera read more 
 The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows 
[elsewhere] the sun never sets.
 [Lat., Altera figlia
  Di quel monarea a cui
   Ne anco, quando annotta, il Sol tramonta.] 
 Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, 
many.  
 Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, 
many. 
 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; 
as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.  
 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; 
as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. 
 My apple trees will never get across
 And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
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 My apple trees will never get across
 And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
  He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors." 
 It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, 
that the sun never sets upon their read more 
 It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, 
that the sun never sets upon their Dominions. 
 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is 
thine eye evil, because read more 
 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is 
thine eye evil, because I am good? 
 Possession means to sit astride the world
 Instead of having it astride of you.  
 Possession means to sit astride the world
 Instead of having it astride of you.