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

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. – Junius

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

I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln

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