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

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

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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

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

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

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. – Joyce Carol Oates

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