What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.3
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?