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单词 service is no inheritance
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service is no inheritance (formerly heritage)
a. Proverb. service is no inheritance (formerly heritage): working as a servant is not an effective way of providing for one's future. Obsolete.Usually with reference to domestic service.
[Compare Middle French service du seigneur n'est pas heritage and variants (late 14th cent.).]
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?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 31 Servise, I wote wele, is none heritage.
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xx. 162 But service is no inheritance;..therefore..hee beginnes now in his Summer, to store up against winter.
1639 T. Heywood True Relation 2 Most Famous Eng. Pyrats i. v. sig. A8v These two..further reasoned that service was no heritage.
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 6 A poor Servant is not to be blamed if he strives to better himself; that Service is no Inheritance.
1845 Eng. Gentleman 28 June 156/4 Occasionally you may see her paying a visit to the Bloomsbury Savings' Bank, for service is no inheritance, and she is determined to..provide for a comfortable retirement when her day is gone by.
1911 Monitor & New Era 7 Oct. 10/1 All this is changed. Service is no inheritance, seems to be the motto of the day.
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