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“A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground”
Spanish Proverb quotes
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“One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground”
Samuel Butler quotes (English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902)
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“He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another”
Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
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“I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.”
William S. Gilbert quotes (English Lyricist, 1836-1911)

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“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”
Alex Haley quotes (American Author whose works of historical fiction and reportage depicted the struggles of African Americans. Pulitzer Prize in 1977. 1921-1992)
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“A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity”
Robert Green Ingersoll quotes (American Statesman and Orator, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism. 1833-1899)
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“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own”
Ovid quotes (Ancient Roman classical Poet and Author of Metamorphoses, 43 BC-17)

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“Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.”
Charles Dickens quotes (English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

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“HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered --the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.”
Lucan quotes (Spanish Poet, 39-65)

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