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Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have 
abundance: but from him that hath read more 
 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have 
abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even 
that which he hath. 
 Britannia needs no bulwarks
 No towers along the steep;
  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,
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 Britannia needs no bulwarks
 No towers along the steep;
  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,
   Her home is on the deep. 
 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.] 
 Exclusive property is a theft against nature.
 [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.]  
 Exclusive property is a theft against nature.
 [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.] 
 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.] 
 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? 
 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. 
 I die,--but first I have possess'd,
 And come what may, I have been bless'd.  
 I die,--but first I have possess'd,
 And come what may, I have been bless'd.