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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

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

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

The precise form of an individuals activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity. – Henry Louis

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