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“And all to leave what with his toil he won,
To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 169)
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“What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all
that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and
lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt
us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take
up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines.
Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the
sea.”
Henrik Ibsen Quotes Source: Ghosts
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“He lives to build, not boast, a generous race;
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.”
Richard Savage Quotes Source: The Bastard (l. 7)
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“What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends,
Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.
[Lat., De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius paeres,
Nec habet eventus sordida praeda bonos.]”
Richard Savage Quotes Source: The Bastard (l. 7)
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“If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.”
Gregory Nunn Quotes |
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“To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.”
Honore de Balzac Quotes |
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Inheritance Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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