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“The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious
ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is
under ground.”
Sir Thomas Overbury Quotes Source: Characters
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“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves
achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
[Lat., Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi
Vix ea nostra voco.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (XIII, 140)
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“What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards?
Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 215)
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“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”
Helen Keller Quotes |
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“He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.”
Seneca Quotes |
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“We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.”
Piers Anthony Quotes |
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“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours.”
William Ralph Inge Quotes |
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“Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”
Voltaire Quotes |
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