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Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."
Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house!
alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy read more
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house!
alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one."
[Lat., Odiosum est enim, cum a praetereuntibus dicatur:--O domus
antiqua, heu, quam dispari dominare domino.]
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
No, my friends, I go (always other things being equal) for the
man that inherits family traditions and the read more
No, my friends, I go (always other things being equal) for the
man that inherits family traditions and the cumulative humanities
of at least four or five generations.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.
Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
