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“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of the Training of Children.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 95dddb24bf42876367be4fd63123ee3c458cf55b552619f73a505305ec569f3f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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