"I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap."

Allen, Fred A. · Ancestry · 4 fans >>
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"Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own."

Bierce, Ambrose · Ancestry · 1 fans >>
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"If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires."

Boileau, Nicholas · Ancestry · 3 fans >>
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"Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us."

Brooks, Van Wyck · Ancestry · 2 fans >>
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"Heredity is nothing, but stored environment."

Burbank, Luther · Ancestry · 1 fans >>
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"The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable."

Chesterfield, Lord · Ancestry · 0 fans >>
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"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others."

Chesterfield, Lord · Ancestry · 2 fans >>
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"Breed is stronger than pasture."

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"Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Ancestry · 3 fans >>
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"I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."

Gilbert, W. S. · Ancestry · 2 fans >>
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