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The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

Just because we're Knopf doesn't mean we shouldn't sell books as well as any other publisher in the land.

I have inherited nothing. Everything Ann and I have we have earned the old-fashioned way.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.