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LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

I distributed my wealth among my children and set aside a portion for endowment to run charity projects.

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

I am going to leave this car as property of the nation. But meanwhile I shall use it myself.

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Posthumously means getting something after you’re dead, which is not as good as getting something while you are alive, but better than not getting anything at all.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Just think of what we'll pass on to the poor fellow who comes after me.

I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime.

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.