Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. - Oliver Wend

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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. – Sir Thomas Overbore

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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. – Junius

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