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• I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

  Quincy Jones

  Thug, Color, Car

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• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Ancestry, Signals, Mark

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.139, Reprint Services Corporation

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• You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Reading, Writing

  "Clio's Protest" (written 1771)

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• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Rights, Remember, Ifs

  Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.165

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• It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

  Garrett Hardin

  Running, Mistake, Thinking

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

  Marie of Romania

  Fashion, People, Taste

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• One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Suits, Degrees

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• First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Men, Literature, Firsts

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• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

  Joseph Addison

  Quality, Literature, Gains

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• 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.

  James F. Cooper

  Inspirational, Men, Gentleman

  "The American Democrat". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 115, 1838.

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• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  Sam Shepard

  Sides, Fence, Obvious

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• I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Hope To Live

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

  Anna Lindh

  Frustration, Ideas, People

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• Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

  Aristophanes

  Voice, Politician, Characteristics

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• Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mind, Body, Action

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• 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.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Night, Men, Wife

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

  James Thurber

  Food, Wine, Thinking

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 1937

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• Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

  Cyril Connolly

  Class, Delirium Tremens, Apathy

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• Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

  Rod Parsley

  Sex, Gay, Disease

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• By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Firsts, Appearance

  "A Trivial Incident". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

  Benjamin Franklin

  Bears, Ill, Wells

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

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• One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Ends

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

  Plutarch

  Reflection, Men, Want

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.955, 谷月社

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• Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Desire, May

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• The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

  Federico Tesio

  Horse, Winning, Race

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