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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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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks

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The precise form of an individuals activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity. – Henry Louis

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Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. – Luther Burbank

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