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«Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.»
Author: James Joyce
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«Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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«The Cincinnatus of the West, / Whom envy dared not hate, / Bequeathed the name of Washington, / To make man blush there was but one!»
«For Freedom's battle once begun, / Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, / Though baffled oft is ever won.»
«Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.»
«I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles»
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