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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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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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Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. – Proverb

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Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? – Hitopadesa

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

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