“ When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 997
“ Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
- 2.4K
“ A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. ”
- Isadora Duncan- Copy
- 860
“ Suffering is as God's letter. Open it and read it. Many a one will find that he is titled, or that there is an inheritance laid up for him. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. ”
- Nick Nuessle- Copy
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“ There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. - Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. ”
- David Frum- Copy
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“ People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. ”
- Peter Gay- Copy
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“ It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to. ”
- Jack Anderson- Copy
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“ To go into the Hall of Fame, it continues the legacy of the Dallas Cowboys. ”
- Troy Aikman- Copy
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“ Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live without them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair… ”
- Stephen Fry- Copy
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“ Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future. ”
- Alberto Moravia- Copy
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“ If we made decisions based solely on economics, we wouldn't have historic districts. We'd all have vinyl ranches,... West Bluff NHS has to be on notice that historical integrity is equally important as economics, and they shouldn't just go the cheaper and easier route… ”
- John McDonald- Copy
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“ He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. ”
- John Gay- Copy
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“ Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
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“ The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. ”
- Euripides- Copy
- 268
“ A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself. ”
- Lord Henry P. Brougham- Copy
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“ An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone, see what a vast estate he left his son. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 480
“ He that hath a trade hath an estate; He that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 281
“ Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth. Apocrypha Every man is the architect of his fortune. ”
- Appius Claudius Caecus- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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