#bred

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#best #bred #converse #easy #fewest

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ↗

— William Temple

#authority #been #bred #confirmed #custom

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#born #bred #everytime #here #i

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. ↗

— William Davenant

#bred #broadest #fame #like #narrowest

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attached #baggage #bred #case #category

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks. ↗

— Patricia Neal

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