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«When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.»
«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.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
| Keywords:
ancestry, atomic, consequently, globule, My Family, primordial, sneered, sneering, sneers, trace
«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.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancestry, disesteem, disesteemed, electrician, electricians, executions, first instance, hangman, hereditary, instance, law of gravity, officer, ordered, questioning
«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.»
«Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own»
«One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Ancestry
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ancestry, proud of, turnip, turnips, underground
«He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another»
«A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground»
Author: Spanish Proverb
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Pride
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ancestry, plant, Plant The, potato, prides, underground
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