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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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Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. – Luther Burbank

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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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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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