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• I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

  ― William S. Gilbert
  English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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• We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

  ― Anthony Burgess
  British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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• protoplasmal
• civilization
• primordial
• associated
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