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

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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield

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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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