I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive perso

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

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

Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? – Hitopadesa

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. – Proverb

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