Quotes About Estate

The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work.

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.

Finally, you can keep the money in the corporation and wait until you die. Obviously, this isn't my favorite technique. However, upon death, your heirs get a step up in basis for the corporate stock and can liquidate the corporation and receive the proceeds tax free.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

And so on that bright morning, the smoky Sicilian sun making them sweat, the six Mafia chiefs rode their horses up and down along the wall surrounding Prince Ollorto's estate. The assembled peasants, under olive trees older than Christ, watched these six men, famous all over Sicily for their ferocity. They waited as if hoping for some miracle, too fearful to move forward.

on his own base. The Clericuzio estate in Quogue comprised twenty acres surrounded by a ten-foot-high redbrick wall armed by

your heart] That is your own estate, your own, your very own, --your own and another's. Whatever may go to the moneylenders, don't send that there. Don't mortgage that.

CHAPTER LIV ARABELLA AGAIN AT BRAGTON

your heart] That is your own estate, your own, your very own, --our own and another's. Whatever may go to the moneylenders, don't send that there. Don't mortgage that.

CHAPTER LVIII THE TWO OLD LADIES

CHAPTER IX THE OLD KENNELS

CHAPTER XVII LORD RUFFORD'S INVITATION

CHAPTER LX AGAIN AT MISTLETOE

When the "sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species.

Dowry doesn't rhyme with many words, so I had to rhyme dowry and peach tree [...] My nephew will inherit the estate, but the orchards are unentailed and will go to you.

former estate that is now a public park sporting Florence's biggest

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them

If I tell her about Ronald Doe, I'll have to get into the whole thing about Elizabeth's estate, in which case Anne may jump to the worst conclusion and go to the police herself. So no to that, too.

In addition to grand estate, Coucy clearly possessed a personal power of attraction and a faculty for not making enemies.

Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony?

steward and his housekeeper, both persons of sentiment, hoped that upon his death-bed he would remember her, and speak of her

They could see the mansion above them. It was a large square house, painted white.