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Nobility Earned, Not Inherited: A Josh Billings Quip

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 3.

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Nobility Earned, Not Inherited: A Josh Billings Quip

The following humorous item from Josh Billings contains a point too good to be lost. It is a man's own cultivated capabilities and noble achievements which place upon him the stamp of nobility, not the distinction which may be derived from birth or ancestry:—
“I don't insist upon pedigree for man or horse. If a horse kan trot fast the pedigree is all right: if he kant, I wouldn't give a shilling a yard for his pedigree.”