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

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

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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

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