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He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton All heiresses are beautiful. - John Dryden To heirs unknown descends th' unguarded store, Or wanders, heaven-directed, to the poor. - Alexander Pope What madness is it for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) An heiress, remaining unmarried, is a prey to all manner of extortion and imposition, and with the best intentions, becomes--through a bounty--a corruption to her neighborhood and a curse to the poor; or, if experience shall put her on her guard, she will lead a life of suspicion and resistance, to the injury of her own mind and nature. - Jeremy Taylor
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