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Quotes about ancestry
If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. (Boileau Nicholas)
Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. (Boileau Nicholas)
Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. (Boileau Nicholas)
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. (Boileau Nicholas)
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. (Boileau Nicholas)
Breed is stronger than pasture. (Boileau Nicholas)
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. (Boileau Nicholas)
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. (Boileau Nicholas)
Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? (Boileau Nicholas)
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. (Boileau Nicholas)
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. (Boileau Nicholas)
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. (Boileau Nicholas)
High birth is an accident, not a virtue. (Boileau Nicholas)
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. (Boileau Nicholas)
The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground. (Boileau Nicholas)
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. (Boileau Nicholas)
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. (Boileau Nicholas)
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. (Boileau Nicholas)
From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. (Boileau Nicholas)
Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. (Boileau Nicholas)
Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. (Boileau Nicholas)
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. (Boileau Nicholas)
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. (Boileau Nicholas)
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. (Boileau Nicholas)
Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. (Boileau Nicholas)
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