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Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

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

Source: The Country Wife

“Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.”

Men Wells Character Depends Breeding Cattle Physical Health Good Breeding

“The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.”

Funny Various British Stupidity Merit Breeding Incapacity Good Breeding

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“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.”

People World Mind Motivational Company Vanity Fixed Generous Superiority Bent Delightful Trifles Breeding Caliber Prowess Good Breeding Magnanimous Generous People

Author:Van Wyck Brooks

“Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.”

Men Inspirational Mind Quality Honest Proof Gentleman Tone Breeding Honest Man Candor Frame Of Mind Good Breeding

Author:James F. Cooper

“Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.”

Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes

“There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.”

Would Be Natural Half Fashion Dangerous New York Adventure West East Miles Block Dozen Fifth Avenues Voyages Breeding Madison Good Breeding Perfectly Natural Madison Avenue Fifth Avenue

Author:Jules Romains

“There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.”

World Kind Has Beens Reason Humanity Mankind Bears Conversation Appearance Artificial Breeding Good Nature Good Breeding

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.”

People Firsts Greater Talent Sight Favors More Time Breeding Good Breeding

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

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