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

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

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

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