On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 16:13:58 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>On 1/8/2017 3:08 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>> "graham" wrote in message news
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>> The man who has nothing to boast of but his ancestry is like a potato.
>> The only good belonging to him is underground.
>> Sir Thomas Overbury
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>> Hmmm is it boasting or is it pride?
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>People with pride will mention it. People that boast will tell you
>every boring detail.
I doubt I'll ever understand the logic of people being proud of or
boasting about their ancestry. They never existed at the time so how
can they take pride in it? They had absolutely zero involvement.