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

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. – Junius

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

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. – James Russell Lowell

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