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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
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.
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.
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.
While Labour Party orators readily remember the 1980s for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's free-booting variety of entrepreneurial meritocracy, what gets forgotten is that Thatcher also gave the heave-ho to the old establishment's notion of merit - good breeding, a posh school, and so on.