The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
And as long as youre subject to birth and death, youll never attain enlightenment. – Bodhidharma Category: Death