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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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Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce

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I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln

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

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