#necessities

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. ↗