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

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

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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. – Edward W. Howe

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

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

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