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Quote by Nicholas Boileau
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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Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. – Danish proverb

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The precise form of an individuals activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity. – Henry Louis

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

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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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