abuse
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No! all can do his creatures good, He scatters round with hand profuse— The only precept understood, ENJOY, BUT NOT ABUSE!
From The Poems of Henry Timrod by Timrod, Henry
Property is the right to USE and ABUSE.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
Vocabulary lists containing abuse
Common Five-letter Words for Wordle, List 4
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Macbeth's "Is this a dagger..." soliloquy
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Herbert Hoover on "Rugged Individualism" (1928)
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