Comedian Steven Wright famously deadpanned, “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” That is a fact that anyone who is a serious collector needs to remember. Likewise, even those who aren’t particularly religious should heed the commandment: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Moving past the fact that it could be read to approve of slavery and that few of us like have pack animals, the fact remains, that we shouldn’t covet those things that belong to our friends and neighbors. It’s probably still OK to rush a dealer’s table at the next military
