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

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. – Luther Burbank

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. – Joyce Carol Oates

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