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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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Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. – Proverb

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. – Nicholas Boileau

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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