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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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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

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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. ↗

— William Wycherley

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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 breeding. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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