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• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison
• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks
• Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists… — Thomas Carlyle
• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely… — Lord Chesterfield
• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield
• A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
• Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield
• Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. — William Wycherley
• Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character. — Democritus
• The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw
• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and… — Van Wyck Brooks

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