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Inheritance Quotes

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

"French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". Associated Press Interview, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Quoted in R S Peters (ed) TheConcept of Education (1966), ch.10, 'Learning and Teaching'.

Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

"A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1931.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”