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Letter "B" » breeding
«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.»
«April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.»
«He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
bred, breeding, ill-bred, ill-breeding, ill, well-bred
«BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. The word seems to be somewhat loosely used in Dr. Jamrach Holobom's translation of the following lines from the _Dies Irae_:Recordare, Jesu pie, Quod sum causa tuae viae. Ne me perdas illa die.Pray remember, sacred Savior, Whose the thoughtless hand that gave your Death-blow. Pardon such behavior.»
«Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
breeding, denial, good nature, good sense, self-denial
«Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.»
«Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.»
«He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself»
«Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
breeding, differs, insists, in its own right
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