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

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. – W. S. Gilbert

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

Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. – Luther Burbank

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