Inheritance

(185 votes)   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.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(178 votes)   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!

Marcus Valerius Martial
40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

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(158 votes)   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.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(147 votes)   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.

Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author

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(143 votes)   Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(109 votes)   A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(99 votes)   Die and endow a college or a cat.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(94 votes)   Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(90 votes)   I would rather make my name than inherit it.

William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

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(90 votes)   The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

Orlando A. Battista

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(89 votes)   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.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(85 votes)   To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(77 votes)   He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(75 votes)   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.

Charlotte Bronte
1816-1855, British Novelist

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(69 votes)   Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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