Quotations on Ancestry | Quotations: 7 | Pages: 1
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by Edmund Burke
(January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) |
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. |
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by James Russell Lowell
(February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891) |
Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree. |
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by Edmund Burke
(January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) |
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. |
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by Edmund Burke
(January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) |
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation o ... |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. |
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by Voltaire
(November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778) |
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. |
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