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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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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield

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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. – Edward W. Howe

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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

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