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

I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln

Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. – 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

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