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

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Ambrose Bierce: "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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Against	Brief	Cupidity	Disappoints
Gratifies	Having	Held	Indifference
Long	Mans	Material	Object
Others	Particular	Passion	Possession
Property	Rapacity	Thing	Value
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