31 Quotes About Estates

  • Author Lisa Kleypas
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    His two-month search for Charlotte had led him to Hampshire, a place of heather-carpeted hills, ancient hunting forests, and treacherous valley bogs. The western country was prosperous, its twenty market towns abundantly filled with wool, timber, dairy products, honey, and bacon. Among the Hampshire's renowned estates, Stony Cross Park was considered to be the finest. The manor house and private lake were situated in the fertile Itchen River valley.

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  • Author Andrey Bely
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    Adam Antonovich's father was a tubby tyrant with a triple chin and chinks where his eyes should have been. All his life he had amassed money. In old age he had exchanged it for space; his estates grew, grew and swelled.("Adam")

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  • Author Nancy Rubin Stuart
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    The estate Marjorie envisioned was to be erected in the middle of the seventeen-acre lot, which, when cleared of jungle growth, would be surrounded by great stretches of rolling lawn with views of Lake Worth and the Atlantic.

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  • Author Tony Abbott
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    Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

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  • Author Boethius
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    Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

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  • Author Hosea Ballou
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    Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

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