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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. – Proverb

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius

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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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