The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
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Thomas Overbury
These are some quotes by English author Thomas Overbury Poet, who lived between 1581 and 1613.
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It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
