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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 121
AUTHOR: Don Marquis (1878–1937)
QUOTATION: i
have often noticed that
ancestors never boast
of the descendants who boast
of ancestors i would
rather start a family than
finish one blood will tell but often
it tells too much
ATTRIBUTION: DON MARQUIS, “A Roach of the Taverns,” Archy and Mehitabel, pp. 156–57 (1927, reprinted 1930).
SUBJECTS: Blood
 


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