• 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 bli

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  Charlotte Bronte

  PoetEnglish1816 · 19th century

  3.9 · 19 votes · 12 reads

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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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  Louisa May Alcott

  AuthorAmerican1832 · 19th century

  3.1 · 48 votes · 111 reads

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• Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 78 reads

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• The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.1 · 13 votes · 164 reads

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• The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 195 reads

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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.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.2 · 14 votes · 140 reads

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• The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 151 reads

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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.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 46 reads

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• Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  5.0 · 15 votes · 195 reads

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• To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.1 · 42 votes · 99 reads

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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.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 76 reads

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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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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 56 votes · 38 reads

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