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Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “Preface to Dr. Brooke's natural history. Introduction to a new History of the world. Preface to the Roman history. Preface to the History of England. Preface to An history of the earth. Preface to the Beauties of English poetry. Preface to a collection of poems for young ladies, devotional, moral, and entertaining. Dr. Aikin's Critical dissertation on the poetry of Dr. Goldsmith. Poems. Dramatic : The good-natur'd man. She stoops to conquer”, p.116

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.342, VM eBooks

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.35

What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.

Horace (1835). “Horace: The Epistles, book I-II. The Art of poetry. Appendix, containing translations of various odes, &c”, p.185