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to own

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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Alexander Pope

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. Frank Zappa

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty. Hedy Lamarr

Better a handful of dried figs and content with that, than to own the gate of peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel. Moroccan Proverb

Better a handful of dry dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel. Arabic Proverb

Better to own it than asking your brother for it. Faroese Proverb

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