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Breed is stronger than pasture.

George Eliot

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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Voltaire

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4

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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5

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw

Ancestry
6

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Ancestry
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From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Ancestry
8

Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Ambrose Bierce

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9

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Mark Twain

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10

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Earl of Chesterfield

Ancestry
11

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ancestry
12

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Seneca the Younger

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13

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Plato

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14

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.

W. S. Gilbert

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15

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

Fred Allen

Ancestry
16

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

Ancestry
17

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

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18

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.

Jonathan Swift

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19

Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?

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20

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Plutarch

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21

Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.

Ancestry
22

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Will Rogers

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23

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

Seneca the Younger

Ancestry
24

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

E. W. Howe

Ancestry
25

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ancestry
26

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.

Ancestry
27

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

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28

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

Earl of Chesterfield

Ancestry
29

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Ovid

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30

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

James Russell Lowell

Ancestry
31

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Seneca the Younger

Ancestry
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Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.

Ancestry

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Breed is stronger than pasture.

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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.

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

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.

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.

Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.

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.

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.