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Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
 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. 
 When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
 [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce read more 
 When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
 [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,
  Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.] 
 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." 
 Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave,
 May I a small House and a large Garden have.
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 Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave,
 May I a small House and a large Garden have.
  And a few Friends, and many Books both true,
   Both wise, and both delightful too.
    And since Love ne'er will from me flee,
     A mistress moderately fair,
      And good as Guardian angels are,
       Only belov'd and loving me. 
 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? 
 Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does 
not possess his estate, but read more 
 Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does 
not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him." 
 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.] 
 Cleon hath ten thousand acres,--
 Ne'er a one have I;
  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--
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 Cleon hath ten thousand acres,--
 Ne'er a one have I;
  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--
   In a cottage I.