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«A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself»
«Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.»
Author: Matthew Hale
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accustom, acquaintance, estate, estate for life, expenses, hereby, rank, undoing, whereby
«Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.»
Author: Stephen Fry
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«Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.»
«And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.»
«Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads»
«[Knowledge is] a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Creator, estate, relief, storehouse, storehouses
«An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
aspiration, estate, landed, landed estate, solid
«Good temper is an estate for life»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Temper
| Keywords:
estate, estate for life, good-tempered, good temper
«Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
declared, estate, estates, Good Thing, insane, legally, seventies, seventy
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