East Asian Descent

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“An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”
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“In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.”
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