"Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health,……" — Democritus

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• Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
• We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling… — Diane Ackerman
• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,… — Joseph Addison
• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or… — Van Wyck Brooks
• The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. — Luther Burbank
• Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than… — Thomas Carlyle
• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days… — 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
• You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and… — William Penn
• Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs
• Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like… — Jean Anouilh

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