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High birth is an accident, not a virtue. - Pietro Metastasio

High birth is an accident, not a virtue. – Pietro Metastasio

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Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. – Proverb

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

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. – Nicholas Boileau

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