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The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses. ↗

— Lowell Thomas

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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. ↗

— Gail Godwin

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Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. ↗

— Andre Gide

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It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them. ↗

— Lactantius

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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

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