“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own”
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“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own”
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors”
“The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity”