Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own
ancestry
A selected quote by Ovid.
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It is not the critic who counts.