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25 quotesA man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
Inheritance
Thomas Scott
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A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.
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Bible
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A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
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(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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John Dryden
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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John Ruskin
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Die and endow a college or a cat.
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Alexander Pope
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He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
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Yiddish Proverb
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I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
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Andrew Carnegie
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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William M. Thackeray
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It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.
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Saying
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It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.
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Kin Hubbard
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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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No legacy is so rich as honestly.
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William Shakespeare
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Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.
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Clarence H. Hincks
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Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
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Ruth E. Renkel
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
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William Hazlitt
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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Orlando A. Battista
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The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
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J. Paul Getty
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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Thomas Fuller
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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.
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Henry David Thoreau
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What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.
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Source Unknown
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun