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"Heredity" Quotes from Famous Books

... I shall remove them at once. After all, Cosmo, we seem to know a good deal about them; and then we know some other things by heredity.' ...

— Alice Sit-By-The-Fire • J. M. Barrie

... soft, silvery laugh was music to the girl's heart. Yes, this was the ideal mother. Was there some secret quality in heredity, after all? ...

— The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... to-day is open to talent, for there is no heredity in finance, commerce, or industry. The Succession and Death Duties are wiping out those reserves by which old-fashioned banks and businesses warded off from themselves for two or three generations the result of hereditary incompetence. ...

— Success (Second Edition) • Max Aitken Beaverbrook

... repeated, that the tendency to perform them is completely organized in the nervous system before birth. The animal takes care of himself as soon as he begins to live. He has nothing to learn, and his career is a simple repetition of the careers of countless ancestors. With him heredity is everything, and his individual experience is ...

— The Destiny of Man - Viewed in the Light of His Origin • John Fiske

... passed-away and Rufus Hallett, like another Stephen, had fallen on his knees beneath the missiles of the villagers to whom he was coming with relief. They had spent their lives in the service of others; he had spent his in his own. It was curious. If there was anything in heredity, he ought to have felt at least some faint impulse from their zeal; but he never had. He could not remember that he had ever done anything for any one. He could not remember that he had ever seen the need of it. It was curious. He mused on it—mused on the odd differences between one generation ...

— The Street Called Straight • Basil King

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