Possessions

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Socrates. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 2, ch. 27.

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Socrates. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 2, ch. 27.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny the Younger

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Pliny the Younger. Epistulae [Letters]. c. 1st century, bk. 2, no. 15.

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Pliny the Younger. Complete Letters, translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, no. 15.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.