“I don’t usually talk much about this, Chester, because my grandfather dinned it into me as a child that it doesn’t make any difference who you’re descended from unless you can do something yourself to match what your ancestors did to gain their own notoriety.”

— John Brunner , book Timescoop

Source: Timescoop (1969), Chapter 2 (p. 18)

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