The Devil's Dictionary: Property
Updated May 14, 2020 |
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PROPERTY
-n.
Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
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