#inherits

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. ↗

— Frederick Henry Hedge

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The fool inherits, but the wise must get. ↗

— William Cartwright

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When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold. ↗

— Julio Iglesias

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