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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.
Theodore L. Cuyler
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
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Gregory Nunn
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.
Bible
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
All heiresses are beautiful.
John Dryden
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
Tacitus
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
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
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Juvenal
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
Orlando A. Battista
Kinder lieben ihre Eltern zuerst. Nach einer Weile beurteilen sie sie. Selten, wenn je, verzeihen sie ihnen.
Oscar Wilde
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
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Ruth E. Renkel
Say not that you
Anon.
