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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons cant sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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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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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks

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