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The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground. – Sir Thomas Overbore

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

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

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. – James Russell Lowell

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