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I don't have
to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
-- Fred A. Allen
1894-1957, American Radio
Comic
Genealogy. An
account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not
particularly care to trace his own.
-- Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author,
Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
If your
descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of
their fires.
-- Nicholas Boileau
1636-1711, French Literary
Poet, Critic
Nothing is so
soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our
forebears. It seems to absolve us.
-- Van Wyck Brooks
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