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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. - Ralph Waldo

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. – Nicholas Boileau

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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield

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Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? – Hitopadesa

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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. – W. S. Gilbert

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