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Good Breeding Quotes

As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance, so good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equal Picture Quote #1

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding Picture Quote #1

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere Picture Quote #1

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time Picture Quote #1

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration Picture Quote #1

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in Picture Quote #1

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Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners Picture Quote #1

One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the three several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and those below us Picture Quote #1

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette Picture Quote #1

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can’t sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features Picture Quote #1

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Insofar as he’d formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners Picture Quote #1

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person Picture Quote #1

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As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance, so good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equal (Good Breeding Quotes) People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding (Good Breeding Quotes) How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere (Good Breeding Quotes) While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time (Good Breeding Quotes) If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration (Good Breeding Quotes) Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in (Good Breeding Quotes) Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners (Good Breeding Quotes) One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the three several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and those below us (Good Breeding Quotes) Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette (Good Breeding Quotes) Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can’t sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features (Good Breeding Quotes) By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations (Good Breeding Quotes) 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 (Good Breeding Quotes) Insofar as he’d formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners (Good Breeding Quotes) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person (Good Breeding Quotes)

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