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Originally Posted by Theobald
Out of 220 millions of White Americans we have something like 100 millions of Vikings, 30 millions of descendents of Julius Caesar, 50 millions belong to the old Anglo-Norman nobility, the others being descendents of either Russian tsars or other Slavic kings. Some were even Kings of Jerusalem in a past life. But there isn't any American whose ancestrors were poor peasants or workers. Weird, isn't it ?  |
Remind me to search for one priceless quote on another forum. It went something along these lines. I almost fell off the chair the first time I read it:
"My ancestors were of the Frankish nobility, but they surely mixed with the Gaullish aristocracy"
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.