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"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."
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"Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection."

"There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation."

"I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world."

"The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light."

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

"Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him."

"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."
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"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."

"One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them."

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."

"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do."

"If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date."

"What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's."

"If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today."
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