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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2342/view">I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/132/Fred_A._Allen">Allen, Fred A.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2343/view">Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/729/Ambrose_Bierce">Bierce, Ambrose</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2344/view">If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/820/Nicholas_Boileau">Boileau, Nicholas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2345/view">Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1025/Van_Wyck_Brooks">Brooks, Van Wyck</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2346/view">Heredity is nothing, but stored environment..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1138/Luther_Burbank">Burbank, Luther</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2347/view">The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1484/Lord_Chesterfield">Chesterfield, Lord</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2348/view">Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1484/Lord_Chesterfield">Chesterfield, Lord</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Breed is stronger than pasture. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2349/view">Breed is stronger than pasture..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2267/George_Eliot">Eliot, George</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2350/view">Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2351/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2834/W._S._Gilbert">Gilbert, W. S.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2352/view">Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3463/Hitopadesa">Hitopadesa</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2353/view">Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3522/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes">Holmes, Oliver Wendell</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2354/view">Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3522/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes">Holmes, Oliver Wendell</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2355/view">None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3591/Edgar_Watson_Howe">Howe, Edgar Watson</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2356/view">I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4418/Abraham_Lincoln">Lincoln, Abraham</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2357/view">The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4505/Henry_Louis">Louis, Henry</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2358/view">They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4516/James_Russell_Lowell">Lowell, James Russell</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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High birth is an accident, not a virtue. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2359/view">High birth is an accident, not a virtue..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4960/Pietro_Metastasio">Metastasio, Pietro</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2360/view">We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5436/Joyce_Carol_Oates">Oates, Joyce Carol</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2361/view">The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5500/Sir_Thomas_Overbore">Overbore, Sir Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2362/view">The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5505/Ovid">Ovid</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2363/view">Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5742/Plato">Plato</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2364/view">It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5755/Plutarch">Plutarch</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2365/view">From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5854/Proverb">Proverb</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2366/view">Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5868/Danish_Proverb">Proverb, Danish</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2367/view">Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5874/German_Proverb">Proverb, German</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2368/view">Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5907/Russian_Proverb">Proverb, Russian</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2369/view">There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6016/W._Winwood_Reade">Reade, W. Winwood</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2370/view">My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6210/Will_Rogers">Rogers, Will</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2371/view">Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6229/Franklin_D._Roosevelt">Roosevelt, Franklin D.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2372/view">Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6599/Seneca">Seneca</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2373/view">No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6599/Seneca">Seneca</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2374/view">He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6599/Seneca">Seneca</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2375/view">Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6649/George_Bernard_Shaw">Shaw, George Bernard</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2376/view">Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6969/Robert_Louis_Stevenson">Stevenson, Robert Louis</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2377/view">In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7089/Jonathan_Swift">Swift, Jonathan</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2378/view">Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7349/Mark_Twain">Twain, Mark</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2379/view">The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7377/Source_Unknown">Unknown, Source</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/2380/view">Do well and you will have no need for ancestors..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7459/Voltaire">Voltaire</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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