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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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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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A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.
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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
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My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
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The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
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I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
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Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.
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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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A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
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Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
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Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
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If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.
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Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
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Die and endow a college or a cat.
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But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
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He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
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Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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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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A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
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No legacy is so rich as honestly.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.
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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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