“ Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law… a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence. ”
- Henry Brougham- Copy
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“ Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. ”
- St. Francis of Assisi- Copy
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