The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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#108.George Bernard Shaw
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The world can be possessed only by its possessing me, and this in turn is the way it possesses the person who has won the world, since one who possesses the world in any other way possesses it as the accidental, as something that can be diminished, increased, lost, won, without his possession being essentially changed. If, however, he possesses the world in such a way that the loss of it can diminish his possession, then he is possessed by the world. p. 164-165
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
The discovery of a toy duck in the soap dish, presumably the property of some former juvenile visitor, contributed not a little to this new and happier frame of mind. What with one thing and another, I hadn't played with toy ducks in my bath for years, and I found the novel experience most invigorating. For the benefit of those interested, I may mention that if you shove the thing under the surface with the sponge and then let it go, it shoots out of the water in a manner calculated to divert the most careworn. Ten minutes of this and I was enabled to return to the bedchamber much more the old merry Bertram.
P. G. Wodehouse
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
Leonardo da Vinci
[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.]
Giacomo (Jacques Casanova de Seingal) Casanova
Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.
Jose Rizal
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