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Select the correct texts in the passage. Which sentence best expresses the author's point of view that possessions can take over a home? adapted from The Tyranny of Things by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris Two fifteen-year-old girls stood eyeing one another on first acquaintance. Finally, one girl said, "Which do you li other little girl said, "Things." They were friends at once. I suppose we all go through a phase when we like things best; and not only like them, but want to possess then for accumulation is upon us. We make "collections," we fill our rooms, our walls, our tables, our desks, with thir Many people never pass out of this phase. They never see a flower without wanting to pick it and put it in a vase without wanting to own it, nor a plcture without wanting to hang it on their walls. They keep photographs of all albums of all the places they visit. . . . Their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the termina dumps at length everything It has picked up during its progress through the lands.​

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