Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are. (Sydney J. Harris)

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

Sydney J. Harris

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