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Quotes of the Day for 12 April 2005 - Ancestors

Some folks delight in the glory of their ancestors, others haven't ever bothered to learn who they were or what they did.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
     - Charles Dudley Warner, 1829 - 1900

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
     - François Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778

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, 1880 - 1968

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
     - Plutarch, 46 - ca. 120

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

Aristocracy: What is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
     - John Ciardi

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