I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And …

Ernest Hemingway
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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). For Whom the Bell Tolls, p.72, Simon and Schuster
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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). For Whom the Bell Tolls, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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