PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may …

Ambrose Bierce
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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. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.189, University of Georgia Press
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