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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad trait

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

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From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. – Proverb

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

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