have it
Verb
Meaning
To state or hold as true.
Conventional wisdom has it that heat rises, but in fact heat diffuses: hot air rises.
To be the object of ridicule, rebuke, critique, etc.
To possess some desirable quality or ability.
I was nervous about her performing on stage, but after all these years, she still has it.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force.
If you don't take it, you don't have it.
Better deserve honour and not have it, than have it and not deserve it.