The Devil's Dictionary: Property

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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PROPHECY

PROPERTY

-n.

Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

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