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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant

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

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

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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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We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. – Junius

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

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

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