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

Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. – Luther Burbank

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

Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. – Danish proverb

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