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«I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree»
«It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.»
Author: Millard Fuller
| Keywords:
blue, blue blood, college, college degree, counts, pedigree, pedigrees| Occasions:
Graduation
«She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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airs, deluge, deluges, haughty, laughed, pedigree, pedigrees, pretensions, sensible, The Deluge
«PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancestor, arboreal, bladder, bladders, cigarette, descendant, pedigree, pedigrees, swim bladder, urban
«And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names: / And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.»
«Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Englishman, Englishmen, pedigree, pedigrees
«More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.»
«I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations»
«Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.»
«If there is any good in philosophy, it is this: that it never looks into pedigrees.»
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