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310. Breeding
The difference, he observed, between a well-bred and an ill-bred man is this: "One immediately attracts your liking, the other your aversion. You love the one till you find reason to hate him; you hate the other till you find reason to love him."
Boswell: Life
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337. Breeding; Manners
He insisted that politeness was of great consequence in society. "It is," said he, "fictitious benevolence. It supplies the place of it amongst those who see each other only in publick, or but little. Depend on it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other."
Boswell: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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746. Breeding; Manners
"Courtesy and good humour are often found with little real worth."
Johnson: Dryden (Lives of the Poets)
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1,006. Breeding; Manners
"Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss."
Johnson: Rambler #98 (February 23, 1751)
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1,008. Breeding; Manners
"Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating to rudeness, or selfesteem from swelling into insolence; a thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected, without any remorse of conscience or reproach from reason."
Johnson: Rambler #98 (February 23, 1751)
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