"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway" — George Santayana

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• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,… — Lord Byron
• All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't… — Willa Cather
• Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall
• Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made… — Irving Kristol
• What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox… — Unknown Author
• A dreamer born is a hero bred... — Mary Chapin Carpenter
• I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them… — Damien Hirst
• I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving… — Jonathan Swift
• Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred. — Unknown Author
• Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech… — William James

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