This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
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Remark C, p. 69Bernard Mandeville
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
The next good quality belonging to a gentleman, is good breeding [manners]. There are two sorts of ill-breeding: the one a sheepish bashfulness, and the other a mis-becoming negligence and disrespect in our carriage; both of which are avoided by duly observing this one rule, not to think meanly of ourselves, and not to think meanly of others.
John Locke
Good-breeding is opposed to selfishness, vanity, or pride. Never weary your company by talking too long or too frequently.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
No Habit or Quality is more easily acquir'd than Hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learn'd than to deny the Sentiments of our Hearts and the Principle we act from: But the Seeds of every Passion are innate to us, and no body comes into the World without them.
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