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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-. -- Emily Dickinson
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. -- Jacques Necker
Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind. -- John Gay
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. -- Thomas Carlyle
My friends are my estate. -- Emily Dickinson
Goodness is beauty in the best estate. -- Christopher Marlowe
I don't think estates are grim places. -- Andrea Arnold
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse. -- Hugh Bonneville
Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built. -- Ed McMahon
Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned. -- Donald Trump
Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. -- Andrew Carnegie
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. -- George Jean Nathan
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. -- Ambrose Bierce
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own. -- Frank Zappa
Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away. -- Sam Snead
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. -- Donald Trump
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. -- Donal Henahan
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. -- Edward Young
Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry. -- Michael Oxley
In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America. -- Penelope Wilton
Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy. -- Marshall Field
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries. -- Herman Gorter
Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk. -- Armstrong Williams
The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president. -- Chris Van Hollen
There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile. -- Nelson DeMille
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists. -- Alice Morse Earle
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. -- Alan Watts
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education. -- Suze Orman
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. -- Derek Walcott
I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it. -- Chris Cooper
Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country. -- James Otis
I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like. -- Natalie Dormer
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby. -- Margaret Cavendish
You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people. -- Prince Andrew
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. -- Thaddeus Stevens
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? -- Epictetus
He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him. -- Douglas Reed
There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent. -- Robert Heilbroner
As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates. -- Jenny Downham
Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in. -- James Buchan
God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates? -- Samuel Hopkins
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers. -- Simon Beaufoy
I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP. -- Vinnie Jones
Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated. -- Erma Bombeck
Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates. -- Charles Caleb Colton
All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money. -- JJ Feild
Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples. -- Victoria Alexander
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. -- Benjamin Franklin
[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands. -- Edward Gibbon
I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like -- Natalie Dormer
The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable. -- Philip Sidney
The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on. -- William Z. Foster

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