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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare

A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

- Nicholas Murray Butler

My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.

- Alexander Dumas

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

- Helen Keller

Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.

- Italian proverb

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

- Macaulay

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

- Voltaire