self-sufficing

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self-sufficing - able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit"

independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"

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Forsooth, there is a lake in me, sequestered and self-sufficing; but the stream of my love beareth this along with it, down--to the sea!

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"A party of four is surely self-sufficing? And as for food, our hamper--"

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Suppose you were to ask me whether the body is self-sufficing or has wants, I should reply: Certainly the body has wants; for the body may be ill and require to be cured, and has therefore interests to which the art of medicine ministers; and this is the origin and intention of medicine, as you will acknowledge.