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Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not

Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. – Ambrose Bierce

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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. – W. S. Gilbert

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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. – Van Wyck Brooks

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

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