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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Because Believe Born Defend Estates Heirs Inheritance Kindred Parents Principles Some Take Them Tutors Would

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It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Colonial Colonists Contemporary Definite Easy Estates Gain Houses Notion Reliable Source

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I don't think estates are grim places.

~Andrea Arnold

Topics: Estates Grim Places Think

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The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

~Chris Van Hollen

Topics: Ask Did Estates Fact Matter Pay President Reasonable Republican Roosevelt Share Since Teddy Very

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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Abandoned Apart Estates Few History Landscapes Over Rises Ruins Sigh Sugar

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He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

~Douglas Reed

Topics: Back Bacon Big Bring Could Days Down Estates Go Great Harvest He Him His Hungary Least Regret Side Thinks Time Wage Wealth Winter Work

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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

~Edward Young

Topics: Clouds Down Drop Estates May Must Seek Sought Titles Us Wealth Wisdom

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