The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is li

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

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

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. – Nicholas Boileau

Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? – Hitopadesa

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