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"Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired." »Venezuelan Proverb
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"Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should." »Bertrand Russell
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"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward." »John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
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"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in." »Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." »Helen Gahagan Douglas
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"There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue." »Tom Robbins
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