REAL ESTATE

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1. The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.—Bible, Leviticus 25:23
   

2. Of this round earth whereon I stand,
   I do not own one inch of land;
   I shall not lose upon the day
   When Gaffer Death drags me away.—ALICE BROWN, Autolycus
   

3. Under all is the land. Upon its wise utilization and widely allocated ownership depend the survival and growth of free institutions and of our civilization. The Realtor is the instrumentality through which the land resource of the nation reaches its highest use and through which land ownership attains its widest distribution. He is, a creator of homes, a builder of cities, a developer of industries and productive farms.—Code of Ethics: National Assn. of Real Estate Boards
   

4. No man shall be received into our commune who sayeth that the land may be sold. God's footstool is not property.—ST. CYPRIAN (200-258 A.D.)
   

5. Think of the surface of a lake into which you drop a stone. That is the center of your operation. From that, there will run out ripples spreading in ever widening circles. Just so real estate has spread, or the people have spread over real estate in just about that way, always in an ever widening circle.—HARRY HALL, Growth of New York
   

6. Make up your mind to buy at a time when other people are not buying freely—don't wait for a "boom." This takes courage but it pays profit.—W. B. HARMON
   

7. Land is of fundamental importance as the basis of man's economic and social life.—W. C. HARRIS, The Annals: Amer. Acad. of Polit. & Social Science
   

8. Increments in land values from the social point of view are unearned incomes, and . . . whenever society permits any individual to live on an unearned income, the goods and services he consumes actually are taken, although indirectly, from the other members of society.—W. N. LOUCKS, The Annals: Amer. Acad. of Polit. & Social Science

9. There is an increasing purpose in the universe, and real estate gets all the benefit of it.—J. R. MURPHY, Pointers in Real Estate
   

10. It is rightfully contended that the owner of real estate is one who is more generally interested in the affairs of the city, or the community in which he lives, in the State, and in the Government generally. So, it really and truly makes for better citizenship.—J. R. MURPHY, Pointers in Real Estate
    

11. Real estate is one of the fundamental commodities. It has been bought, sold, mortgaged, and leased since the earliest days of history. Other commodities may be brought into use, become popular, and then disappear; but the land is underneath all.—N. L. NORTH, Real Estate
    

12. All people must live somewhere.—N. L. NORTH, Real Estate
    

13. Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
    

14. The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.—ROUSSEAU
    

15. You may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

16. Now the difference between Wall Street and real estate is that you pick up the morning paper and you know if you are wiped out if you have stocks on margin. . . . With real estate there is nobody to tell us that we are wiped out. We may be wiped out and yet not know it.—R. E. SIMON, Real Estate Appraisal
    

17. Mother Earth . . . is the greatest security in the world.—H. L. SIMPSON, The Financing of Real Estate
    

18. The mortgage stones that covered her, by me
    Removed, the land that was a slave is free.—SOLON
    

19. It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.—ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Last Chronicle of Barset
    

20. Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.—CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, My Summer in a Garden