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It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Henry Brougham |

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Niccolo Machiavelli |

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Rafael Sabatini |