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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1550 |
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AUTHOR:
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Arthur Young (1741–1820) |
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QUOTATION:
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Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert…. The magic of PROPERTY turns sand to gold. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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ARTHUR YOUNG, journal entries for July 30 and November 7, 1787, Travels…, 2d ed., vol. 1, pp. 51, 88 (1794, reprinted 1970). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Property |
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