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«A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.»
«I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.»
Author: James Whistler | About: Genius | Keywords: hereditary, offspring
«Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children»
Author: Sam Levenson (Author, Humorist) | About: Insanity | Keywords: hereditary, insanity
«Insanity is hereditary: You can get it from your children.»
Author: Sam Levinson | About: Insanity | Keywords: hereditary
«Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule»
«HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered --the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.»
«Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.»
«Not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.»
«Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: hereditary, honors
«One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion»

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