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Aristotle1 quote
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCJohn Stuart Mill1 quote
No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust. — John Stuart Mill · 1848William Shakespeare1 quote
Distribution should undo excess
And each man have enough. — William Shakespeare · 1606