"It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry."

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Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.

— Pierre Charron