“In…the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”

— George Meredith

Source: The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879), Ch. 14.

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British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828–1909

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