Ambrose Bierce's Quote - Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not

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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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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. – Ambrose Bierce

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Historian. A broad — gauge gossip. – Ambrose Bierce

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An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. – 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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I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln

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