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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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. – Edward W. Howe

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

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

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

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