He straightened his back so that he could stare over the wiry brush at the soaring columns, the brooding eaves, and felt that he deserved this inheritance, had deserved it all his life.
It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky – but all critical to making them who they are.
It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky", and at the end of the book, he remarks, "Outliers wasn't intended as autobiography.
Shannon later forms a plan to con her stepbrother, Boone Carlyle, into giving her some of the inheritance she rightly deserved.
Dwight wrote prolifically and rationalized slavery, saying that a man "who receives slaves from his parents by inheritance, certainly deserves no censure for holding them".
The man obviously assumes he deserves part of the inheritance, and that he does not deserve his present circumstance.
By Shirley Hazzard The New Yorker, July 22 , 1967P. 31 Dinah Delbanco has just come into an inheritance (no one knows how much) and has asked for a much deserved promotion in her work at the Organization (the U.N).
The New Yorker, July 22 , 1967P. 31 Dinah Delbanco has just come into an inheritance (no one knows how much) and has asked for a much deserved promotion in her work at the Organization (the U.N).
Dinah Delbanco has just come into an inheritance (no one knows how much) and has asked for a much deserved promotion in her work at the Organization (the U.N).
The virtuous grandchild may deserve at least some of the inheritance, but he is not entitled to any of it.
